Intrinsic geometry of an accretion disk around a Schwarzschild black hole, embedded in three-dimensional space
This program visualizes the intrinsic geometry of a thin accretion disk surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole, showing how the disk appears when its curved Riemannian metric is taken into account. The accretion disk is rendered with a coordinate grid that reveals the stretching and warping of space near the event horizon, embedded in three-dimensional space with the distortion caused by the Schwarzschild metric made visible.
Controls: Click and drag to orbit, scroll to zoom.
