Headline : Take a look inside a black hole with this new NASA video

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Light famously cannot escape the event horizon of a black hole, leaving astrophysicists to theorize and speculate what it’s like beyond the limits of human perception. Now, NASA researchers take that theorization a step further, in the form of an animation that takes you (the viewer) into the black hole.

Black holes are some of the densest objects in the universe. Light cannot escape their event horizons because the holes’ gravitational pull is so intense. At the limit of the black hole is its accretion disk—that bright orange-yellow swirl of superheated material that the black hole has pulled to its vicinity. Occasionally, bits of the accretion disk fall into the black hole, causing visible flare-ups that astronomers can observe and document.

Your first view into the imagined center of a black hole may have been the climactic scene in Interstellar, when Matt McConaughey’s character plunges into the inky black yonder. The new animation doesn’t feature any Hollywood stars; its main character is a supermassive black hole, 4.3 million times the mass of the Sun.

“I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera—a stand-in for a daring astronaut—just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out, and one where it crosses the boundary, sealing its fate,” said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in an agency release.

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