Jacob Pinter: This one is from a few years ago.
This one's a little bit older, but also from Jeremy Schnittman.
Ron Gamble: Yeah, I know, I know.
I know Jeremy's work when I see it.
So this is actually one that I use in my, my talks a lot.
Jacob: Yeah?
Ron: But it gives you a visualization of both kind of edge-on
and top-down of what the accretion disk looks like around a black hole.
Right.
So we're looking at something that kind of looks like a spacetime hurricane, if you will.
Jacob: Wow. Ron: To give you kind of like a natural example.
Jacob: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ron: But also you can kind of see where the lensing is kind of up top.
This piece ... again, you're seeing behind the black hole.
So the disk that is ... the part of the disk that's behind the black hole
gets lensed in front.
And so that's how you see that kind of crest up top for the black hole
and you kind of see it kind of spin back around and it goes back up top.
And that's exactly what we see here. Thanks, Jeremy.
for putting this together because I use it a lot.
But yeah, that is, that's what we're seeing.
And it's a very good visualization, both top-down
again and edge-on to see what ... you can see
the spherical surface of a black hole.
Jacob:Yeah, Ron: It’s not a funnel
Jacob:Yeah,
Ron: As we can see, right? [Jacob laughs]
Jacob: I always appreciate hearing a scientist say ‘that movie did a good job’
because I know that it's not always the case.
Ron: Right.
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