This authoritative volume is the first to present a comprehensive and up-to-date review of our new understanding of accretion disks around black holes. Interest in black hole accretion disks has ...

allows us to probe the properties of the black hole itself. We numerically model the appearance of these systems in X-rays (see Fig. 1). While current X-ray observatories cannot directly image the ...

Here's a simulation of what the Event Horizon Team thought the black hole would look like. And here's the real image. The light you see here is what's called the accretion disk. It's a disk of ...