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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hi Astrophysics,

I always wondered why they draw black holes like they do in that the accretion looks like it's drawn in two planes. I would have thought it would have looked a bit more like a saturns rings? Or is it exactly like saturns rings but we see the whole ring bent round the top because a black hole bends the light around so we can see it? Or is it something else entirely that they are trying to depict here?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The second one. The image is simulated as how an external observer would see it. It was firstly done for the Interstellar movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The first simulated images were actually computed decades ago, but I think Interstellar had the most detailed simulation by a high margin

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/first-ever-image-black-hole-cnrs-researcher-had-simulated-it-early-1979

Interstellar spent 100 hours of mainframe compute time per frame to simulate a black hole

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/black-hole-photo-christopher-nolan-insterstellar-predicted-look-1202057414/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow, that first one is so cool.

Yeah, I misremembered the Interstellar paper that said it was the first simulation for a movie and thought it was the first image simulation ever. It's even referencing the old one there.

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