Observing Supermassive Black Holes in Virtual Reality 1000p 60fps
We present a full VR 360 generalrelativistic raytracing and radiative transfer calculations of accreting supermassive black holes. We performed stateoftheart threedimensional generalrelativistic magnetohydrodynamical simulations using the BHAC code, subsequently postprocessing this data with the radiative transfer code RAPTOR. The VR movie includes all relativistic and generalrelativistic effects, such as Doppler boosting and gravitational redshift, as well as geometrical effects due to the local gravitational field and the observer s changing position and state of motion. We calculated images based on recent bestfit models of observations of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milkyway. The images are generated at four astronomicallyrelevant observing frequencies and combined to generate a complete 360 Virtual Reality movie of the surrounding environment of the black hole and its event horizon.
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