Insight.

Here is a quote from the article, “… (the) fuzzy image – seen above – shows what a flat disc of material falling into a black hole might look like if we were close enough to see it. It doesn’t look flat, because the intense gravity of the black hole is bending light around it.

“Indeed the gravitational field curves the light rays near the black hole so much that the rear part of the disk is ‘revealed’,” Luminet explained in a paper published on arXiv last year. (January 27, 2019)