What would we see if we fell into a Black Hole?
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a great visual explanation of the infall experience, including when spaghettification happens.
What it is
ScienceClic visualizes what you would see falling into a black hole, from the approach and the accretion disc to crossing the horizon, in 15 minutes.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2022 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec bocytron · 2022-03 · on “Visualizing black holes with general relativistic ray tracing”
Awesome. Also, see this great YouTube video of what you would see if you fell into a Black Hole. Is also has a very good explanations of what you are seeing: [this video]
Cites y0ssar1an · 2022-07 · on “Deepest infrared image of universe”
According to this video, the spaghettification doesn't happen until the last few seconds/minutes, when you're close to the singularity. [this video]
Cites ben_w · 2025-06 · on “The Gentle Singularity”
While I prefer "event horizon" over "singularity", part of the reason I blogged about this distinction years ago was that the event horizon always seems to be ahead of you as you fall in to a black hole*. My blog posts didn't age all that well, and I've learned to be a little more sceptical about the speed of technological change, just as the political events over the intervening years have made me more aware of how fast political realities can change: [LINK] and [LINK] * at least until the rate of change of curvature gets so high you're spaghetti, you're (approximately) co-moving with the light from your own body. This means that when you cross the event horizon, you still see your own legs