Cool, thought for a long time there it was just an artistic liberty; but this is much cooler.

Hi Astrophysics,

I always wondered why they draw black holes like they do in that the accretion looks like it’s drawn in two planes. I would have thought it would have looked a bit more like a saturns rings? Or is it exactly like saturns rings but we see the whole ring bent round the top because a black hole bends the light around so we can see it? Or is it something else entirely that they are trying to depict here?

Sounds like circumcision propaganda to me.