Ah, I gotcha, thanks for explaining. Yeah the 'accretion disk' are what this is normally called. Lots of matter is getting smashed right outside the EH, creatin

Ah, I gotcha, thanks for explaining. Yeah the 'accretion disk' are what this is normally called. Lots of matter is getting smashed right outside the EH, creating heat energy, and like you said it's able to blast out photons.