---
title: "360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole"
description: "A team of physicists created a 360 video that takes people on a tour of a realistic simulation of the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way."
date: "2018-11-20"
modified: "2018-11-20"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/360-video-supermassive-black-hole"
categories:
  - "Astrophysics"
  - "Black Holes"
  - "Space"
tags:
  - "360 video"
  - "black hole"
  - "space"
  - "vr"
---

# 360-Degree Video Shows What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

![A team of physicists created a 360 video that takes people on a tour of a realistic simulation of the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/360-video-supermassive-black-hole.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Radboud University\</em\>*

## We’re Going in

Finally, modern technology has made it possible for us to live out our childhood dreams and dive head-first into a black hole. Or, at the very least, a new 360-degree video lets us see what it would look like before the incredible gravitational pull tore us to shreds.

A team of physicists out of Radboud University in The Netherlands and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany created an immersive video that accurately simulates Sagittarius A\*, the [black hole that’s slowly eating the Milky Way](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/black-hole-milky-way>) from the inside out.

## Family Fun

The researchers hope the simulation, published Monday in the journal *[Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology](<https://comp-astrophys-cosmol.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40668-018-0023-7>)*, will help educate people of all ages about how black holes really work. As the video shows, black holes like Sagittarius A\* are dynamic hubs of cosmic activity, not silent spheres of nothingness that sit around and occasionally gulp down a wayward star or planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sLSQ54bHE

*Video credit: J.Davelaar 2018*

## Eye of the Storm

In the video, which can be watched with or without a virtual reality headset, the audience is dragged along by Sagittarius A\*’s gravitational pull. It brings people closer and closer to the [black hole](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/microquasar-ss433-gamma-rays>), which rests in the middle of what looks like a gigantic, fiery tornado.

But there’s no “if you die in the Matrix, you die in real life” moment here — before the audience is plunged into the black hole, the audience is catapulted backward, rocketing away until Sagittarius A\* fades from their view altogether.

**READ MORE:** [Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black hole](<https://phys.org/news/2018-11-virtual-reality-simulation-supermassive-black.html>) \[*Phys.org*\]

***More on black holes: [When Galaxies Merge, the Black Holes in Their Hearts Fuse Together](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/galaxies-merge-black-holes-hearts-fuse>)***

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)