Visiting a Kerr black hole (corrected version / combined view)

Journey of an observer falling inside a(n ideal) Kerr black hole and emerging in a parallel universe. (The black hole has a mass of roughly one million solar masses (Schwarzschild radius = 10 light seconds) and an angular momentum at 80% of maximality (a/M=0.8). The observer has an energy of 1.2 times its mass and zero angular momentum along the black hole’s axis.) The upper left quadrant is the observer’s front view (for a somewhat arbitrary definition of “front“), the upper right quadrant is their rear view. The lower left quadrant displays the trajectory on a polar plane cut (external horizon is red, internal horizon is green, static limit is dashed and is not seen in the video, cut discontinuity is purple, and trajectory is blue) and in a Penrose diagram (outer (I) blocks are shown in blue, inner (III) blocks are shown in pink, and intermediate (II) blocks are shown in light or dark grey according as they are white hole or black hole regions; the trajectory is again shown in bl
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