12 June 2008 | Post a Comment

Visualize a Black Hole at the Event Horizon

This cute little animation shows the causal structure around a classical black hole in an interesting way. The perspective is that of a body orbiting just outside the event horizon:

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Animation credit: Robert Nemiroff.

Nemiroff's paper discussing this kind of visualization is available on ArXiv.org.

For more animations of spacetimes with screwy causal structures, visit Virtual Trips to Black Holes & Neutron Stars.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now, if only someone would do Goedel spacetime!

Anonymous said...

I assume the image pictured is for Schwarzschild spacetime? Or something similar?

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