Black holes bend space and time so severely that light rays from behind the black hole curve around it and enter an observer's eyes from all directions, creating a distorted image where light appears to orbit the black hole from every point on the surrounding disc, including underneath, above, and behind.
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Because the black hole's gravity is so immense, it's causing light to be bent and distorted around it.
>> So, you imagine this disc of material around this thing. Then light rays, let's say from your perspective, from behind the black hole go around into your eyes. Sometimes they orbit and then go around into your eyes.
And they go into your eyes from every point on the disc, from underneath and at the top and behind. So, you have light rays going always around this thing. So, so then you So, you see that.
That's what you see as an image.
>> And in our little spaceship, we're getting [music] closer.
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