we have a black hole at home

"This exists because physically accurate black hole renderings normally live in research papers, not in a browser tab."

A browser visualization of a black hole, described by its author as a simplified version of Synchray.jl — his open-source special-relativistic raytracer for synchrotron emission from astrophysical jets.

Our takeMade by an astrophysicist as a side project spun off his actual research code, which is the whole appeal — the toy has a serious engine underneath. Give it a moment to load.