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An Blackhole Simulator in Browser

The website presents a browser-based black hole simulator that visualizes gravitational lensing and spacetime distortion effects in real time, allowing users to interact with a simulated black hole environment.

Background

- This is a browser-based interactive simulation (not a real article) that lets users explore the physics of a black hole's accretion disk — the superheated ring of gas and dust that spirals into a black hole. - The app uses real general-relativity ray-tracing (likely based on the "unstable photon ring" calculations popularized by the 2019 Event Horizon Telescope image of M87*). - Users can adjust parameters like black hole mass, spin (Kerr metric), camera angle, and redshift, seeing how light bends around the event horizon in real time. - It's an educational/demonstration tool, not a scientific discovery; similar in spirit to projects like "Black Hole Simulator" on Shadertoy or the open-source "GPU-accelerated raytracing" demos by developers like David Buchfuhrer (who created an earlier web-based black hole renderer).

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