Visualizing Black Holes and Gravitational Collapse with Digital Holography
Robert L. Hocking and Loic Cherel

Proceedings of Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts
Pages 153–160
Regular Papers

Abstract

In recent years, digital holography has progressed to a level of realism where humans fail to distinguish holograms from reality. Our goal in this work is to apply this technology to the visualization of both static black holes and the dynamic collapse of a ball of dust into a black hole. While the former has been done, to the best of our knowledge, it has never been done using holography—whereas the latter appears never to have been done at all. Different options for producing the hologram are compared.

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