I get the explanation that they have gravity and things are attracted, but why is it in a ring rather than a sphere? why do things from one AXIS get attracted but not from other?
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That’s not how it works. The light in the ring is only visible from one place, where we are. In other locations you’d have to observe the BH at other times when it was lensing light from a different star. Things are attracted (space is curved) in all directions, but we only care about light we can observe from here.
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