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		m_mueller on April 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [vi... I'm still wondering why the accretion disk from the released images isn't warped in a way we saw in interstellar. Are we looking at it top-down rather than from its orbital disk? would a differently oriented black hole look more like interstellar? Veritasium also has an explanation and I don't think it has anything to do with its spin.

aurailious on April 11, 2019 | [–]

Also, the following post on reddit might help you visualize this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_con...

SiempreViernes on April 10, 2019 | | [–]

Intersterllar chose to view the disk edge on, when the distortions got the most funky at all.

aurailious on April 11, 2019 | [–]

I think the rotation from M87 is 15 degrees off from our perspective, so yes we are looking mostly "down" at it.

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