That's where photons literally move around the black hole, and around that is this hot gas that's drawn to the black hole, and it's hot because of friction.
The experience of time is different around black holes, from the outside, you seem to slow down as you approach the event horizon, so time passes slower for you.
The director of the National Science Foundation says pictures like this help scientists understand the mysteries of black holes and reveal the complexities of the universe.
And it's now proving valuable for helping astronomers and other scientists understand more about the evolution of stars, black holes, and the structure of the Milky Way.
Certainly one of the great scientists of our time, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work reconciling black holes with Einstein's general theory of relativity.
And if the computer simulation is correct, not only many hypervelocity stars, but also neutron stars as well as black holes are rushing towards our galaxy from the Large Magellanic Cloud.
If Catherine had grown up to be a charmer, Peter Ulrich had grown up to be the exact opposite — a miserable black hole that sucked all the joy out of any room.