Tentatively identifying the object eclipsing the star as a black hole. There's definitely gravitational lensing going on with the light around the eclipsing object.
Tentatively identifying the object eclipsing the star as a black hole. There's definitely gravitational lensing going on with the light around the eclipsing object.
Pretty sure the thing you're thinking is being eclipsed is not a star, but instead the black hole's accretion disk. There's definitely a black hole here, but if there is a star (in the foreground anyway), it's likely torn apart as part of the disk. The gravitational lensing does weird things like allow you to see the disc behind the star above and below it.
Pretty sure the thing you're thinking is being eclipsed is not a star, but instead the black hole's accretion disk. There's definitely a black hole here, but if there is a star (in the foreground anyway), it's likely torn apart as part of the disk. The gravitational lensing does weird things like allow you to see the disc behind the star above and below it.
The commentary says "Star eclipse", but yeah there's definitely the accretion disk in the image.
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