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What happens if you fall into a black hole? NASA's Discover supercomputer created a visualization simulating an observer's approach to the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. Astrophysicists generated approximately 10 terabytes of data over five days, which would take over ten years on a conventional computer. The...

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Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, we're kicking off #BlackHoleWeek with a virtual plunge into the event horizon—a black hole's point of no return:
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