March 7, 2012 in Science & Technology

Travel INSIDE a Black Hole

Black holes, light speed travel, and the center of the universe! Watch Numberphile discuss a “Googol”: http://bit.ly/zUfoWo LINKS: All music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow Einstein Ring (a special type of gravitational lensing): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_ring Earth orbiting black hole (gif): http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/lensearth_640x480.gif Visual distortion caused by massive gravity: http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/nslens_effects.html What would it be like to travel into a black hole? (text): http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/BlackHoles/fall_in.html INTO A BLACK HOLE (with videos): http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/schw.html Black Hole view from behind: http://www.spacetimetravel.org/expeditionsl/expeditionsl.html Spaghettification: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/encyc_mod3_q16.html Dumbhole: http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/a-sonic-black-hole more on the dumbhole: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23625/ what it would look like to approach the speed of light: http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/4dperspective.html pinhole camera demo of “seeing behind yourself”: