My take on the accretion disk isn't very physically-based. It's really mostly meant as eye candy. However, the distortion (the form it takes) is physical and du

My take on the accretion disk isn't very physically-based. It's really mostly meant as eye candy. However, the distortion (the form it takes) is physical and due to the Schwarzschild geometry. The physical explanation of an accretion disk would be some matter that is orbiting the black hole and emitting radiation, so it makes some sense at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk