The accretion disk of a black hole. | Cosmoknowledge

A power line explodes in Point Edward from the weight of the intense ice accretion that has been left in the wake of today’s ice storm. Credit: Michael Burdett | Ontario Storm Watch

Warped World • Black Hole Accretion Disk Visualization 10.12.2020 • (Schematic in post comments) This movie shows a complete revolution around a simulated black hole and its accretion disk following a path that is perpendicular to the disk. The black hole’s extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise. As our viewpoint r