The clip, produced on a NASA supercomputer, shows a first-person plunge towards a supermassive black hole's 'event horizon' - its dreaded point of no return.
'This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out,' says the space agency.
As the video begins and the 'camera' approaches the void, we can see the bright orange 'accretion disk' - a hot disk of gas orbiting the black hole and its main source of light.
We can also see the thinner photon sphere - a thin ring of light that forms closer to the black hole's 'event horizon'.
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