What Would You Actually Feel Falling Into a Black Hole? | Science for Sleep

What might falling into a black hole feel like? Unwind with a slow journey toward Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way: bending light, tidal forces, time dilation and the event horizon. This is an imagined journey based on relativity, made for bedtime listening. No spacecraft has explored a black hole from inside; the story distinguishes theoretical predictions from open questions. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome 1:31 Choosing Your Black Hole 10:55 The Long Approach 21:10 Time Begins to Stretch 30:11 The Pull of the Tides 38:01 Crossing the Horizon 45:19 The View From Inside 52:36 Where Time Runs Out 59:38 What We Still Do Not Know 1:08:44 How We Found Them 1:17:16 Back Home, Safe and Still Science and further reading: NASA: Black Holes: https://science.nasa.gov/universe/bla... Image credits: NASA collection and collaborators. Credits: Chris Cassidy, GSFC, JSC, MSFC, NASA, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell, NASA/ESA, NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI, NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/CXC/SAO, NASA/JPL/STScI Hubble Deep Field Team, NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute, NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, NRAO/AUI/NSF/NASA. The following images are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) unless noted. Cropped, color-adjusted and animated. Each URL identifies the source image. ESO/M. Kornmesser https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... EHT Collaboration https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noi... ESO/José Francisco Salgado ( josefrancisco.org ), EHT Collaboration https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... NASA, ESA and J.A. Muñoz (University of Valencia) https://esahubble.org/images/heic1116a/ EHT Collaboration https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... ESO/Gravity Consortium/L. Calçada https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... ESA/Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt https://esahubble.org/images/potw1814a/ ESO/S. Gillessen et al. https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso... Original script for this channel. Narration: synthetic voice (AI text-to-speech). Visuals include photographs and artist's impressions. Somnium Cosmos: slow journeys through the universe, made for falling asleep. #sleep #fallasleepto #blackhole