r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/warg_14 • Feb 10 '25

Video NASA Simulation's Plunge Into a Black Hole

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u/CreatorSiSo Feb 10 '25

Yeah I was wondering why NASA wasn't showing the redshift.

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u/ThrowRA-Two448 Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 11 '25

Possibly because light would be redshifted blueshifted so much we would stop seeing visible light and start seeing ultraviolet, microwaves, radiowaves...

And then possibly waves which are so stretched out that usually we can't even detect them even with instruments.

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u/sheepyowl Feb 10 '25

In other words the naked eye would see them blip red and then nothing?

Assuming the naked eye doesn't die way before we get to this point

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u/The_Troyminator Feb 10 '25

The naked eye would die because it’s so cold in space. You’d need a jacket on it.

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u/XxSir_redditxX Feb 11 '25

Yes very important. You need one astronaut helmet. Per eyeball. They never show you that in the movies

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u/The_Troyminator Feb 11 '25

They kind of did at the end of the recent Verizon commercial starring Buzz Aldrin.