Falling into a realistic Black Hole (VR 360°) 

As a bonus to the previous video (watch it here for more details: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4rTv9wvvat8.html), I wanted to share with you this immersive 360° experience. WARNING: This video shows the fall from a certain distance (~15 times the black hole's radius) all the way down to the singularity. If it looks like we never enter the black hole, this is because of the phenomenon of light aberration, which is explained in the previous video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4rTv9wvvat8.html?t=643 at 10:43). The idea that we would see the sky as a small circle above us is wrong, it is a common misconception that forgets to take into account aberration (basically this mistake comes from calculating angles in the abstract coordinate system instead of doing them in the observer's frame of reference) The images are based on simulations in Python/C++ and enhanced with volumetrics in Blender, and the music (which you can find here : soundcloud.com/aroussel) is composed in Cubase. The fall is almost in real time for a 100k solar masses black hole. The last few seconds are slowed down to see how the black hole's image grows more clearly. It would otherwise take only a few milliseconds.

Feels terrifying falling into an abyss even from my phone.

"falling into a realistic black hole" >looks down >copyright watermark floating in space immune to the black hole

It's pretty terrifying once you get so close to the black hole. That feeling of isolation, lost, and fear. Damn.. quite unfortunate that we may never know what they really hold inside.

I fell asleep in the dark watching RU-vid TV on autoplay and just woke up to this sight. Holy shit.

I was like "Hey, there is still a star in that black hole, how can that be?" I then realized my monitor has a dead pixel.

Thank you to the camera man for sacrificing himself for this wonderful video!

Even on a computer this is terrifying, I'm gonna try it on vr later

The music really just adds on to the experience

Woah. The feeling of dread as the stars begin to stretch and the light around you seemingly fades out of existence is an awesome experience.

Now imagine this except you’re being spun around at up to 80% of the speed of light, literally being atomized from the friction. But that’s not nearly as cool looking. Great work!

I absolutely love astronomy, so this was such a nice experience to see and hear the visuals, would love more like this diving into planets

These 2 minutes felt longer and scarier than a 2 hour horror movie. Who knew casually going into a black hole with calm music for 2mins could make me doubt my existence. But Imagine that, you fall into a black hole and credits roll, like you just completed the game of the universe and you see the name of the vfx artist XD

The music and visuals together... holy frick, great job on this one!

I could feel fear in my stomach with every second of getting closer to the event horizon.

woah this was much scarier than I thought, being able to frantically move around seeking any visible light..... not like watching a movie at all

It’s interesting seeing how much faster it goes the second time around… Also seeing how the light and everything behind you seems to just disappear at the end 🧐

Thanks. That was terrifying. Was really looking forward to the inversion on the other side of the event horizon. Good to know that at the center of every black hole is a credits screen.

I have never seen such extraordinary simulation - honestly I was amazed and scared at the same time. I will drop by to this black hole many more times - hats off!

The crazy part is from someone else’s perspective you’d be stuck outside of it

that moment when you look in to that darkness only to discover yourself staring at the scream and not realising what the heck is happening anymore

I'm a physicist, and previously did numerical relativity simulations at the gravitational astrophysics department at NASA Goddard. I just want to say thank you for the public service you've done with this video, and the care you've taken to capture the essential physics. After a few seconds of watching, I smiled and thought "this guy knows his stuff". The VR in particular makes this both science education and a work of art, like a digital monument.

This is amazing. I actually felt increasingly anxious towards the end of the video. Now I'm seeing it takes a bit more time to recover from that. I need an unicorn chaser.

That was INCREDIBLE!!! I especially loved where you can turn your POV to the side, so you can watch yourself being pulled in. Amazing!!!

The moment I realized the "camera" is getting into the black hole and when it was getting really close I was like "oh hell nah" that was legitimately menacing wow.

Black holes are simultaneously one of the most amazing and utterly terrifying things in our known universe. Nothing compares to the indescribable combination of wonder and sheer existential dread I feel at the thought of "falling" into a black hole like this, even through a flat screen. I have been studying black holes since I was about 6 years old, and they have mesmerized and horrified me ever since.

Lol love how you start to fall from beautiful streams of blue light and then when it reaches 1:31 the black hole is like “ *it’s just you and me now* “

Fun fact: in theory you should just spin around it without being inglobed, but, if you are unlucky, you should now be able to see the event horizon's limit because you are literally travelling in time and then, lastly, you should see all this blue stuff colored as red.

OB: Have you ever heard the theory that if you fall into a black hole, you turn into spaghetti? Loki: No. OB: Good. The less you know about that, the better.

i genuinely felt so much fear. i hate black holes yet i love them, they are absolutely one of my fears, but i am just so fascinated by them that i can't help but to like them at the same time it drives me INSANE

That was incredible. Wow. 😳 When the Black Hole almost filled my screen I felt like I couldn't breathe. All I could think of is to look at the event horizon in hope of holding onto any string of light left. Horrifying experience and I love it!! ❤️

It felt so calm floating at the edge observing the 360 experience. When getting close I thought it was going to make low noises like that of an opening and closing of a heavy giant door. More over when falling my expectations were that the camera view would be interrupted by crushing sounds signaling that due to the gravity I would begin being crushed into a dense object like state. Nevertheless it's a great video and experience!

This makes me cry.. the isolation, the fear, the beauty, the peace. I thought it would be so bad and scary, turns out it has a certain peace encapsulated you, the feels of coming home after such a tiring journey

A beautiful and terrifying coalescence of art and reality

"A visual and *sound* experience based on true general relativity calculations" yes please, I want to hear this beauty for eternity *_jumps right in_*

The music really set the mood for me. The anxiety, despair, and feeling of doom would have consumed me, if this moment was real.

Thank *me* for experiencing this crazy situation and getting it on cam, truly one of the moments of all time.

This was scary as hell, and I was watching from the monitor. Couldn't even imagine what it would feel like to watch it in VR.

This is genuinely, absolutely terrifying. But i am amazed wow!

This is honestly fascinating and terrifying - like, can y'all imagine what it would be like, to end up in the black hole in reality, as you continue to watch the video on your phone or device? I automatically have that thought when I watch these videos...

1:25 The amount of anxiety, goosebumps, fear, confusion, I-want-my-mommy, and I'm f*k is just off the charts💀

I love that space has random text floating about. Hope to see it in person one day

Despite the shit that might happen to your body, I honestly would not mind falling into one. It just seems so intriguing and produces an eerily calm feeling to me.

Can we just appreciate cameraman for surviving a black hole and upload a video

Oh great, I now can experience one of my deep dark fears in 4k VR 360º! Thank you, awesome video!

would actually be so scary to see a black circle in front of you that big

There's something that I can imagine that they don't show us for obvious reasons, but I can imagine that the accretion disk is way so much brighter and full of heat and energy of something like thousands stars. The center of a galaxy has to have much energy nearby.

The music is absolutely perfect for this.

I freakin' love this channel more with every new shit they release

This is too beautiful!! Even light couldn't pass through

that instilled more fear and panic in me than I expected. it became quite overwhelming when the black hole started to take over the whole screen.

As soon as the video started, I thought, wow, that camera man sure is wobbly. Not realizing it’s me that’s the camera man.

This is more than a bonus: this is truly an awesome experience.

I like to think the music is also cientifically accurate.

This is f-ing awesome.

I have no idea why, but I found this oddly calming.

How did you get this footage back from the event horizon?

Cameraman survived, that means we can all do it🔥🙌🏾🔥

And then you awaken on a cart with a funny blond man saying "You're finally awake."

Me jumping into the nearest black hole so I can see end credits irl: 🏃💨

Well, that gave me chills.

This is one of the best black hole simulations I’ve seen, love looking at this fascinating phenomenon

I watched the first 30 seconds. Skipped ahead and saw the dark empty void and said nope. I can’t watch it lol. Actually sent freezing chills down my spine

The cameraman is always invincible and returns to show us every traumatizing deadly experiences...

I love how this is very scientifically accurate

Effin terrifying. It would be the inevitability of it… the inescapability. Heck of a way to go though.

When you start hearing violins in space, that's when you know you're in trouble

I think it'd be much more interesting to see how things appear looking away from the black hole while falling into it. This way we'd be able to see all that light coming in from our universe, not to mention the speeding up of time to infinity, to the end of our universe. So, perhaps crossing into a black hole, from our time perspective, allows the imaginary sentient being, to see the end of time in our universe. That doesn't make sense since, presumably, the end of our universe would end all the black holes. But, it seems to be true that the distortion of time and space would result in seeing an acceleration of time to close to infinity when falling into a black hole. What am I missing here since I'm proposing a logical inconsistency?

I'd expect your camera to stop working way earlier. God knows how you recovered the footage!

I found the copyright thing 😄 Its amazing the visualization of the Doppler effect is amazing

As someone with Melanoheliophobia, this was truly the experience of all time. never again.

Shout out to the cameraman who uploaded this from inside the black hole

Eureka! Now we finally know whats on the other side of a black hole: "Simulation | VFX | Music Alessandro Roussel" Truly Amazing!

Now we know officially what's inside a black hole.... Alessandro Roussel is squatting inside the singularity

Literally one of my waking nightmares. Thanks for this.

I just watched your newer version of this simulation, released today. And, it is better.

Potentially the coolest things on the internet!

You guy's do the best job of describing in great detail, but for the layman, the complexities of astrophysics. Thanks for doing what you do.

these weird entangled blue clouds make the black hole look more menacing, it's like a cosmic octopus or some lovecraftian god

that accretion disk around it is so pretty though! seeing the waves above me as I fall in was almost mesmerizing lmao

The only 360° video I've ever finished. Keep showing us your great accomplishments!

I was literally holding my breath the whole time! This was amazing!!!

Fun fact: if you have another person watching you fall inside, they will see your image freeze even before you cross the event horizon and to the person viewing you, you will just seem to be getting dimmer and tinted until you completely disappear.

my entire childhood is SCREAMING inside of me right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don’t know why but… I get a feeling of security and comfort when falling and looking into a black hole… almost as if it was a mother calling to her child to come here, or at least that’s how I initially thought and felt about it… I don’t know why but being engulfed by darkness, by this black hole which just happens to be apart of the same universe/macrocosm as us, just falling into it and dying by it just feels so natural to me right now… it kinda makes me tear up thinking about it like this

*How come I don't see the back of my head in this video?*

Man cities all over the world need to have this in science and/or art galleries this is amazing

Did watch in bed before sleep. I rarely slept so well! Also I could feel the immense gravity when the phone fell on my head. Amazing job!

This is such a cool experience. I'm excited to see how realistic this will be in 10years with a gaming system

After yesterday's video I was really looking forward to this. Thank you Alessandro!

Is it weird that I wasn't really scared? Maybe it would be different in VR, but I just thought this was beautiful.

proof the cameraman never ever dies

1:45 : finally I'm going to discover what's inside of a black hole Few sec later: video ends

This will surely go down as one of the most viewed science video on RU-vid

i did not know black holes had soundtracks, awesome.

First time i saw camera man died sacrificing himself into the void 😂

I was blown away with being able to look around with my device. Wow! Has no idea these sorts of videos existed!

Thank you for thinking of releasing this.

love the effort and detail put into this video great work!

As a former black hole victim, can confirm it’s accuracy