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Visualization: A Black Hole Accretion Disk

This animated video visualizes what it would look like to orbit a black hole with a glowing accretion disk. The black hole's immense gravity deflects the light emitted by the disk, creating unusual visual effects. The video starts with the observer just above the accretion disk's plane. Surrounding the central black hole is a thin, circular image of the orbiting disk.