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Árpád Szendrei asked: "Can I really see what is on the opposite side of a black hole?"

Yes. Let's take this 360°x180° full panorama:

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Now we zoom in one direction:

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and place a black hole in front of the observer:

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Now we turn around:

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and move the black hole into our new line of sight:

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Here we look up into the clouds:

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and move the black hole into our view again:

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As you can see we would see what's behind of us lensed around the black hole's shadow, but it would be strongly distorted.

The zoomed in images have a FOV of 103°x61°, the black hole has a spin of a=M. There's also a video here with the image used above, but the resolution is rather low. This video has a different background image, but higher resolution.

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