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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk
NASA ^ | 3 Dec, 2025 | Illustration Credit: NASA's GSFC, J. Schnittman & B. Powell; Text: Francis Reddy (U. Maryland, NASA'

Posted on 12/03/2025 2:27:07 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the entire sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass black hole, similar to the one at the center of our galaxy. The camera lies about 16 million kilometers from the black hole’s event horizon and is moving inward at 62% the speed of light. Thanks to gravity’s funhouse effects, the starry band of the Milky Way appears both as a compact loop at the top of this view and as a secondary image stretching across the bottom. Move the cursor over the image for additional explanations. Visualizations like this allow astronomers to explore black holes in ways not otherwise possible.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa

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For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.

1 posted on 12/03/2025 2:27:07 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 12/03/2025 2:27:43 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 12/03/2025 2:28:02 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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4 posted on 12/03/2025 2:28:50 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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“The camera lies about 16 million kilometers from the black hole’s event horizon and is moving inward at 62% the speed of light.” Spacecraft and camera, aperture, shutter speed. Thanks.


5 posted on 12/03/2025 2:35:58 PM PST by kawhill (And the sea will bring each man new hope as sleep brings dreams of home. C.C.)
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The camera man suffered only minor spaghettification.


6 posted on 12/03/2025 2:43:49 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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....The Occasional acid Flashback.”


7 posted on 12/03/2025 2:47:33 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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Here!


8 posted on 12/03/2025 4:57:56 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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Thanks for posting this view with the captions.


9 posted on 12/03/2025 6:12:55 PM PST by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_the_Black_Hole

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4TeuOikApxc/maxresdefault.jpg


10 posted on 12/03/2025 7:45:43 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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This is BS.

Everyone knows there is a Tesseract in the center of a BlackHole.


11 posted on 12/03/2025 8:31:13 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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