2D Black Hole Visualization
Coding Challenge #144
Inspired by the recent image of the Powehi m87 black hole from the Event Horizon Telescope, I attempt to visualize the behavior or light (photons) following the path of spacetime around the black hole.
Community Contributions
- Photon orbits around a spinning black hole. by bongo0 (Source Code)
- FlockingBlackHole by Anurag Hazra (Source Code)
- Light Trajectories Around a Black Hole by Louis Eddershaw (Source Code)
- 3D Black Hole in Processing by Jase Daggett (Source Code)
- Celestial Gravitation Simulator by Nathan Lewis (Source Code)
- 3D Black Hole in p5js by Juan Carlos Ponce Campuzano (Source Code)
- Relativistic Black Hole Sim with Highlited shadow (made in VB.net) by Jos Gielen (Source Code)
- Blackhole in p5js by Peter Dulworth (Source Code)
- Blackhole with funny photons in p5js by Marc Berger (Source Code)
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Links discussed in this coding challenge
Videos discussed in this coding challenge
- How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole by Veritasium
- Slingshot with Gravity! by STEM Coding