Falling into a Black Hole: Movie Index

Approaching the black hole (89K GIF movie).

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Plan view of the fictional stellar system and our trajectory into it. The trajectory ends at the location of the black hole (3K GIF animation).

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Plan view of our trajectory into the black hole (6K GIF animation).

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Orbiting the black hole (95K GIF movie). This version of the movie includes a probe being fired, once per orbit.

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Orbiting the black hole (53K GIF movie). This version of the movie omits the probe.

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Falling to the singularity of the black hole (217K GIF movie).

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Free fall radial dive, straight into the black hole (76K GIF movie).

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Embedding diagram of the Schwarzschild geometry (7K GIF animation).

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Schwarzschild coordinates morph into Finkelstein coordinates (28K GIF animation).

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Schwarzschild coordinates morph into free-fall coordinates (41K GIF animation).

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Finkelstein coordinates morph into Kruskal coordinates (50K GIF animation).

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Kruskal coordinates morph into Penrose diagram (41K GIF animation).

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Schwarzschild wormhole, showing a white hole and a black hole connected by a wormhole (14K GIF animation).

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Could the Schwarzschild wormhole be merely a ‘reflection’ of the normal Schwarzschild geometry (14K GIF animation)?.

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Two white holes merge, form a wormhole, then fall apart into two black holes (52K GIF movie).

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Falling into a wormhole (185K GIF movie).

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Collapse of a uniform, pressureless sphere of matter which free falls from zero velocity at infinity (137K GIF movie).

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A thin spherical shell of matter falls on to a black hole (106K GIF movie)

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Finkelstein coordinates morph into Kruskal coordinates, for a star collapsing to a black hole (40K GIF animation).

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Kruskal coordinates morph into Penrose diagram, for a star collapsing to a black hole (74K GIF animation).

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Quantum mechanical Hawking radiation from a black hole (5K GIF animation).

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A mini black hole evaporates by Hawking radiation (7K GIF animation).

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