u/Puzzleheaded-Oil1383

Hello, I'm a cs + physics major and I built a site that can run a realistic black hole simulation efficiently in your browser.

Physics Specs

• Ray traces photon paths using Schwarzschild null geodesic equations to simulate gravitational lensing around the black hole.
• Models the event horizon, black hole shadow, and photon ring.
• Renders a lensed accretion disk with warped primary and secondary images.
• Simulates gravitational redshift, blueshift, and relativistic brightness changes

Tech Specs:

• Uses GPU fragment shaders for per-pixel ray tracing in WebGL2
• Major optimization: precomputed geodesic lookup tables replace expensive real-time physics solves.
• Procedural accretion disk: the shader ray-traces lensed disk intersections, then generates animated plasma, turbulence, color temperature, rim glow, and bloom.

live simulation: https://blackholesimulation.web.app

github: https://github.com/MaxwellFung/blackhole_simulation

**Run in Chrome for best performance. Also ik there's no sound in space it's an artistic choice.