Event Horizon

A black hole exhibition computed · real physics
View inclination
Orbit bearing
Your distance
Time runs slower
Inner disk speed
Disk peak temp
Observatory controls
0.60
5200K
1.0×
26 rs

A/D orbit · W/S approach · drag steers · scroll pinches
Tap the black hole's parts to learn what they are.

you are about to visit

A Black Hole

est. 13 billion years

The only place where you can stare straight at "nothing" and watch space bend around it. Everything here is computed with real physics from Einstein's equations.

I · Steer

Drag with mouse or finger, or press A / D to look around.

II · Approach

W and S move you closer and farther. Scroll works too.

III · Wonder

Follow the Journey. Click anything glowing. Ask questions.

Journey resumes any time — no wrong turns exist here.

Telescope out of range

Your browser couldn't start WebGL2, which this exhibit needs to compute curved spacetime. Try an up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari with hardware acceleration on — then come straight back; the black hole isn't going anywhere. It literally can't.

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