Loading...

What it was was what I'm talking about here tonight, a black hole shadow image. It's an image of an accretion disk. It's the material that the black hole is drawing in. As it's drawing in, this material could be from a nearby star. It could be a gas field, gas cloud that's close by. The dust cloud is close by. This material is getting drawn into the black hole. It's circling around the black hole, spiraling in like water in a drain. As it's doing so, it's picking up seed. It's being compressed. And those two conditions put together cause material to glow and make the accretion disk glow quite brightly. And that's the picture they took, this accretion disk. When you look, there's a very dark area inside. That's where the black hole will be, but you're not actually seeing the black hole. You can't escape from it, so therefore you couldn't see it. But you are seeing the accretion disk around it by the event horizon. Stopping. Beep.