Whenever I see pictures of black holes warping space time, it looks like a sink hole sucking matter in. So, hypothetically, if you were to approach it does it just look the same from all sides, or face a certain direction?
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Illustration like [this](https://i.stack.imgur.com/B5szS.jpg) are a way where you try to use 3D to show the curvature 2D area of space. It is a bit if you illustrate the shape of the earth with just a circle, not a sphere.
Images like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_-_Messier_87_crop_max_res.jpg have the black hole in the middle. What is seen is the accretion disk of matter that orbit the black hole. You can compare it to the rings around Jupiter.
The accretion disk is a disk because if stuff orbited in all directions there would be lots of collisions. It is the collision and other interactions that result in that it ends up in a single disc. There is not a lot of difference in the orbital plane of planes in our solar system for the
Even if you look at the Accretion disk from the side you will see a dark center with light around it. The reason is black holes bend light so that you can see the accretion disk behind the black hole, the light have bend around.
A black hole doesn’t have a front or back, you could fall into it from any direction.
We think most black holes are spinning. The spinning usually causes the matter around the black hole to form a ring, sort of like the rings around Saturn. Because most of the matter around the black hole is in the ring, most of the matter falling into it falls in at the “equator”, but it is still possible for something to enter it from other directions.
There isn’t an ‘entrance’ or an ‘exit’ from a black hole. Like any object whose structure is shaped by gravity, the black hole itself is a perfectly spherical object and would look the same from any angle. Think of a planet – does it have a front or a back? No, it doesn’t. No one spot on a planet can claim to be any more frontal than any other.
If you were approaching an actively ‘feeding’ black hole, however, then the structure of gases surrounding it *would* look different depending on the angle you were approaching it from. Due to the way that rotating matter behaves, it would spread out in a disk around the black hole.
So if you were approaching it from the “top” or “bottom”, it would look like a large rotating disk, changing in color as the gases speed up while getting closer to the black hole. From the “sides” it would look like a thin disk with a bulge in the center. And depending on the exact characteristics of the black hole, you might also see high-energy jets shooting out perpendicular to the disk.
A black hole doesn’t have a front or back, you could fall into it from any direction.
We think most black holes are spinning. The spinning usually causes the matter around the black hole to form a ring, sort of like the rings around Saturn. Because most of the matter around the black hole is in the ring, most of the matter falling into it falls in at the “equator”, but it is still possible for something to enter it from other directions.
A black hole doesn’t have a front or back, you could fall into it from any direction.
We think most black holes are spinning. The spinning usually causes the matter around the black hole to form a ring, sort of like the rings around Saturn. Because most of the matter around the black hole is in the ring, most of the matter falling into it falls in at the “equator”, but it is still possible for something to enter it from other directions.
If you haven’t seen it yet I highly recommend watching Interstellar. It does a fantastic job of representing both wormholes and black holes based on our best understanding of how such phenomena should/do work.
But you can think of a black hole just like a planet, it’s a sphere, you can (kinda) approach it from all sides just like landing a spaceship on earth or colliding a meteor into earth. The difference is at some point you can’t stop going “down” and there’s no coming back up.
If you haven’t seen it yet I highly recommend watching Interstellar. It does a fantastic job of representing both wormholes and black holes based on our best understanding of how such phenomena should/do work.
But you can think of a black hole just like a planet, it’s a sphere, you can (kinda) approach it from all sides just like landing a spaceship on earth or colliding a meteor into earth. The difference is at some point you can’t stop going “down” and there’s no coming back up.
If you haven’t seen it yet I highly recommend watching Interstellar. It does a fantastic job of representing both wormholes and black holes based on our best understanding of how such phenomena should/do work.
But you can think of a black hole just like a planet, it’s a sphere, you can (kinda) approach it from all sides just like landing a spaceship on earth or colliding a meteor into earth. The difference is at some point you can’t stop going “down” and there’s no coming back up.
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