Tuesday, December 7, 2010

APOD 2.6 (Too Close to a Black Hole)

December 7

I chose this one because black holes are always popular, and I always wondered what it would look like to be near one (I already know that the inside would be pitch black, for the few seconds my eyes still functioned after I crossed the event horizon before they get stretched out of my skull and start to look like spaghetti pasta right before I become a part of the black hole, slightly increasing its gravitational pull.).  I personally find the optical effects directly adjacent to the anomaly the most interesting.  Who would have imagined that an object that absorbs so much light could create such brilliant light-bending oddities in the sky?

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