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A rendering of the black hole "Gargantua" from the movie INTERSTELLAR. The center is black, and it is surrounded by the warped orange-white image of the surrounding accretion disk. Though the disk lies mainly in the equatorial plane of the black hole, its image is visible arcing over the top of the shadow due to the bending of light by gravity. Image credit: James, Tunzelmann, Franklin, and Thorne

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A rendering of the black hole "Gargantua" from the movie INTERSTELLAR. The center is black, and it is surrounded by the warped orange-white image of the surrounding accretion disk. Though the disk lies mainly in the equatorial plane of the black hole, its image is visible arcing over the top of the shadow due to the bending of light by gravity. Image credit: James, Tunzelmann, Franklin, and Thorne
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Dec-2023 19:35:06 UTC Robert McNees
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But the most important development at the conference came when a young physicist named Roy Kerr presented his solution of the field equations of general relativity describing a rotating black hole.
This solution describes the exterior of essentially every black hole in the Universe.
Image 2: James, Tunzelmann, Franklin, and Thorne

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