#  Flying past a black hole in a simulator: Jordy Davelaar and colleagues observe supermassive black holes in virtual reality 

 





November 20, 2018

 

 

 At the centre of our own galaxy there is a black hole, called Sagittarius A\*. In anticipation of the first actual photograph of a black hole, an international project that also involves astronomers of Radboud University, Jordy Davelaar and colleagues have built a virtual reality (VR) simulation of the phenomenon. The VR simulation was published in the journal Computation Astrophysics and Cosmology on November 19th.

 You can find the simulation on [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXN4hpv977s) and find out more about it in the [press release](https://www.ru.nl/english/news-agenda/news/vm/imapp/astrophysics/2018/flying-past-black-hole-simulator/) issued by Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands -- one of the stakeholder institutions of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. Learn more about the vizualization process in the SpringerOpen blog "[Black holes in virtual reality](http://blogs.springeropen.com/springeropen/2018/11/19/black-holes-virtual-reality/)" wirtten by the lead author of the study and graduate student at Radboud University, Jordy Davelaar.

 Find the original publication here:  Jordy Davelaar, Thomas Bronzwaer, Daniel Kok, Ziri Younsi, Monika Moscibrodzka and Heino Falcke: *Observing Supermassive Black Holes In Virtual Reality*, Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology, DOI: [10.1186/s40668-018-0023-7](http://10.0.4.162/s40668-018-0023-7)



 

 

 



 

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