{"date":"2025-12-03","explanation":"What would it look like to plunge into a mon ster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the entire sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-million-solar-mass blac k hole, similar to the one at the center of our galaxy. The camera lies about 1 6 million kilometers from the black hole’s event horizon and is moving inward at 62% the speed of light. Thanks to gravity’s funhouse effects, the starry b and of the Milky Way appears both as a compact loop at the top of this view and as a secondary image stretching across the bottom. Move the cursor over the ima ge for additional explanations. Visualizations like this allow astronomers to e xplore black holes in ways not otherwise possible.","hdurl":"https:\/\/apod.nasa .gov\/apod\/image\/2512\/BlackHoleViz_Schnittman_8192.jpg","media_type":"image", "service_version":"v1","title":"Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk","url" :"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/2512\/BlackHoleViz_Schnittman_1080.jpg"}
