Timeline for Why is the photon sphere spherical, but the accretion disk not?
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| Jun 10, 2022 at 21:51 | vote | accept | Árpád Szendrei | ||
| Jun 9, 2022 at 6:07 | comment | added | BowlOfRed | The momentum comes from the initial momentum of the component objects. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdc25 is an article that mentions effects if the alignment of the disk and the BH do not match. | |
| Jun 9, 2022 at 3:04 | comment | added | Árpád Szendrei | Thank you so much! So the photon sphere's shape is rather because of the non-interaction at first order of photons. "aligned with the angular momentum vector.", does this common vector have to do with the rotation of the black hole itself? So is this why the disk's plane has to align with the rotational plane of the black hole? | |
| Jun 8, 2022 at 22:43 | history | answered | BowlOfRed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |