Transcript of Curious Universe Black Hole Visualization Reel

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So this is actually one that I use in my,

my talks a lot.


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Jacob: Yeah?


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Ron: that gives you a visualization

of both kind of edge-on


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and top-down of what the accretion disk

looks like around a black hole.


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Right? 


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So we're looking at something that kind of

looks like a spacetime hurricane, if you will.


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Jacob: Wow. Ron: To give you

kind of like a natural example.


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Jacob: Yeah, yeah, yeah.


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Ron: But also you can kind of see where the lensing is kind of up top.


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This piece ... again, you're seeing behind the black hole.


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So the disk that is ... the part of the disk

that's behind the black hole


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gets lensed in front.


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And so that's how you see that kind

of crest up top for the black hole


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and you kind of see it kind of spin

back around and it goes back up top.


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But yeah, that is, that's what we're seeing.


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And it's a very good visualization,

both top-down


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again and edge-on to see what ... you can see


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the spherical surface of a black hole.


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Jacob:Yeah,

Ron: It’s not a funnel


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Jacob:Yeah,


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Ron: As we can see, right?

[Jacob laughs]