ArrayFire Blog Raytracing a Black Hole

After Albert Einstein's proposal of the General Theory of Relativity, our outlook on how gravity works has changed significantly opening the possibility of mystifying objects such as Black Holes. Black Holes are massive compact objects resulting from unhalted gravitational collapse. Their gravity affects the spacetime surrounding it to such an extreme level that any object near it, including light, will have as an unavoidable future a path of "falling" towards the black hole. While the theory of general relativity was proven to be highly accurate from experiments testing the bending of light seen during an eclipse or the gravitational time dilation experience of objects closer to massive objects, there had not been a direct observation of a black hole until ...Read More