Explained: How gravity distorts our view of a black hole | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: How gravity distorts our view of a black hole | Explained News, The Indian Express

Updated: September 28, 2019 7:58:15 am

Explained: How gravity distorts our view of a black hole

The visualisation simulates the appearance of a black hole where infalling matter has collected into a thin, hot structure called an accretion disc (see illustration).

The black hole’s extreme gravity skews light emitted by different regions of the disc, producing the misshapen appearance (Source: NASA)

A new visualisation of a black hole, released by NASA, illustrates how its gravity distorts our view by warping its surroundings.