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I'm still wondering why the accretion disk from the released images isn't warped in a way we saw in interstellar. Are we looking at it top-down rather than from

I'm still wondering why the accretion disk from the released images isn't warped in a way we saw in interstellar. Are we looking at it top-down rather than from its orbital disk? would a differently oriented black hole look more like interstellar? Veritasium also has an explanation and I don't think it has anything to do with its spin.

SiempreViernes 8y ago
Intersterllar chose to view the disk edge on, when the distortions got the most funky at all.
aurailious 8y ago
I think the rotation from M87 is 15 degrees off from our perspective, so yes we are looking mostly "down" at it.
aurailious 8y ago
Also, the following post on reddit might help you visualize this: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_confused_about_the_orientation_of_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/bc343r/for_those_con...