Snowy the Geek

I’ve seen a lot of reference to black holes on the interwebs of late.  A couple of videos are embedded below that are really great at helping one imagine what it is like beyond the event horizon.

The first video is a rough “Black Hole Flight Simulator” that takes the viewer on a terminal spiral down into a black hole, past the event horizon.  Created by Professor Andrew Hamilton, it’s called “The Violent Universe” (via GAS)

The second video (also via GAS) is a little more complicated and a lot more geeky (if you’re a physics geek, that is).  Based around the Schwarzschild radius idea, or:

the radius of a sphere in space, that if containing a correspondingly sufficient amount of mass (and therefore, reaches a certain density), the force of gravity from the contained mass would be so great that no known force or degeneracy pressure could stop the mass from continuing to collapse in volume into a point of infinite density: a gravitational singularity(colloquially referred to as a black hole). (Wikipedia)

I hope someone learned something!

-SnowytheGeek