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*drools* mmmm! Truth!
Now imagine flying towards one of these objects, as light from the stars behind it becomes bent by its strong gravitational field, and circling around it at some distance. Now imagine approaching and orbiting at the photonsphere, the radius at which light rays become so bent, they actually curve all the way around, and you can see the back of your head! Think of falling deeper and deeper towards the black hole, as tidal forces stretch your body into spaghetti. Imagine spiralling inward toward a singularity in spacetime, an infinitely dense geometric point where all the laws of physics, in fact the very fabric of space and time, break down and cease to exist. Picture watching someone take the plummet towards the event horizon, the point past which no information can be transmitted, seeming never to quite reach it, though he himself feels he has already crossed it - in a finite amount of time!
--http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~spac250/steve/
Now imagine flying towards one of these objects, as light from the stars behind it becomes bent by its strong gravitational field, and circling around it at some distance. Now imagine approaching and orbiting at the photonsphere, the radius at which light rays become so bent, they actually curve all the way around, and you can see the back of your head! Think of falling deeper and deeper towards the black hole, as tidal forces stretch your body into spaghetti. Imagine spiralling inward toward a singularity in spacetime, an infinitely dense geometric point where all the laws of physics, in fact the very fabric of space and time, break down and cease to exist. Picture watching someone take the plummet towards the event horizon, the point past which no information can be transmitted, seeming never to quite reach it, though he himself feels he has already crossed it - in a finite amount of time!
--http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~spac250/steve/
