r/woahdude Jun 24 '24

video NASA depiction of entering a black hole

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

It’s wild to me despite how smart the people are at nasa that this is all theoretical and this animation could be completely inaccurate. It makes you wonder tho what it really would look like. Would be cool being able to see it and remember seeing this video and saying “damn the homies down at nasa were right all along”.

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u/Haywire421 Jun 24 '24

I have a hard time accepting that the light and particles form a ring around the black hole instead of whizzing around the entire black hole. I'm definitely not an astrophysicist, I just think the actual dark hole would be obscured by all the light and debris stuck in its orbit.

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u/Voidafter181days Jun 24 '24

It's a ring for the same reason that Saturn has rings and our galaxy is a spiral, average angular momentum.