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M87 Black Hole Photos and the Orientations the Angular Momentum of the Black Hole and that of the Accretion Disk.
I’m trying to understand the orientations the angular momentum (let’s call it spin) of the black hole and that of the accretion disk. Veritasium has good video on the topic [1], but it does not relate to the released M87 images. The 5th paper of the EHT [2] (Figures 2, 3, and 5) has some good graphics, but the spins are displayed in 2 dimensions and, for me, are somewhat hard to comprehend. Maybe they are showing projections of the spin vectors.
I’d like to see some good 3-D graphics of the black hole spin and accretion disk spin next to the M87 Black Hole image.
Has anybody seen some good graphics on this topic?
[1] Veritasium, Published on Apr 9, 2019.
[2] The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. 2019 ApJL 875 L5. https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205
I’m trying to understand the orientations the angular momentum (let’s call it spin) of the black hole and that of the accretion disk. Veritasium has good video on the topic [1], but it does not relate to the released M87 images. The 5th paper of the EHT [2] (Figures 2, 3, and 5) has some good graphics, but the spins are displayed in 2 dimensions and, for me, are somewhat hard to comprehend. Maybe they are showing projections of the spin vectors.
I’d like to see some good 3-D graphics of the black hole spin and accretion disk spin next to the M87 Black Hole image.
Has anybody seen some good graphics on this topic?
[1] Veritasium, Published on Apr 9, 2019.
[2] The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration et al. 2019 ApJL 875 L5. https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205
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