Inside Black Holes: Index

What really happens inside black holes? The aim of this website is to take you to the frontier of what is known.

Hey, take me back to Falling into a Black Hole.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Email me at Andrew.Hamiltonàcolorado.edu (replace à by @).

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.