To be sucked in by a black hole, you need to reach its event horizon, the one-way boundary beyond which nothing can escape.
"Even light itself, which is struggling to get out, pointed away from the black hole, will find itself dragged inward, like doing a Michael Jackson moonwalk." "I think of a black hole as rather like a waterfall, except it's not a fall of water but rather a fall of space," he said. Hamilton also described them as places where space is falling faster than light. Jupiter's stormy Great Red Spot is shrinkingīlack holes form when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel, collapse and become so compressed and dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull.Simulation background: Milky Way panorama.Watch what you might see inside a black hole »
FALLING INTO A BLACK HOLE SIMULATION CODE
The results are described in a recent paper and shown in a simulation that took more than 100,000 lines of computer code to create. Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus, a physics teacher in Fort Collins, Colorado, set out to visualize what an "infaller" might see if he or she were swallowed by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. "But as a practical matter, they are, in fact, much simpler than the sun, far simpler than stars and infinitely simpler than human beings."
We think of them as being complicated things because they're described by complicated mathematics," Hamilton said. "Black holes are some of the simplest things in the universe. Scientists can try to simulate a trip inside with the help of equations in Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which make predictions about black hole behavior, said Andrew Hamilton, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
In fact, astronomers can't even see black holes directly, though there is strong evidence millions of them exist in our galaxy alone. Humans have only gotten close to black holes in sci-fi books and movies.
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