Inside Black Holes: Index

What really happens inside black holes? Are there wormholes inside black holes? Do black holes give birth to baby universes? These questions lie at the frontier of research into relativity. The aim of this website is to take you to the frontier, and maybe even a bit beyond it.

Frontispiece

This is a general relativistic visualization of a supercomputed magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of a disk and jet around a black hole. The disk and jet were supercomputed by John Hawley at the University of Virginia. The general relativistic rendering was done with the Black Hole Flight Simulator.

Index

• Journey into the simplest kind of black hole, a black hole with mass, but no charge and no spin — a Schwarzschild black hole.
• Journey into and through a charged black hole — a Reissner-Nordström black hole. This one has a wormhole and a white hole connecting to a new universe.
• How to understand black holes — a black hole is a waterfall of space.
• How does a scene appear when you pass through it at near the speed of light? — The rules of 4-dimensional perspective.
• How to find your way inside black holes — Penrose diagrams.
• Journey into a realistic (well, kind of) black hole — the wormhole is destroyed by the mass inflation instability.
• The movies on this site were made with the Black Hole Flight Simulator.