Image: Black hole's accretion disk
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Description: Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole’s extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different parts of the disk, producing the warped image.
Title: Black hole's accretion disk
Credit: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-visualization-shows-a-black-hole-s-warped-world
Author: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman
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