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am_Unition · 3671 days ago · link · · parent · post: What black holes actually look like - discovered by a scifi film team
The best takeaway is a summary of your last paragraph: What black holes "look" like is primarily determined by their surroundings. There are other intrinsic properties of a black hole (mass/size, spin, and charge) that will affect appearances, though not as much as surroundings. In the picture produced by the "Interstellar" simulation, it looks like they've simulated a more or less symmetric/homogenous accretion disk.This is from 2013, which some interesting imaging suggesting black holes would look like crescent shapes: http://www.space.com/19324-black-holes-first-images.html