This is a simulation of a black hole's accretion disk. The disk's colors represent infrared temperature readings of the redshifted event horizon. Scroll down past the instructions for an explanation of the purpose of this project. -------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Click the Green Flag. 2. To change the disk's diameter, hover your mouse at the lower edge of the screen, and a slider (called "Solar Mass") will pop up. 3. Use the slider to change the solar mass of the black hole, making the Hawking radiation and Redshift effect change its properties. --------------------------------------- Questions And Answers (Q&A): Q: What is an Accretion Disk? A: "It is a disk of usually gaseous matter surrounding a massive celestial object (such as a black hole) in which the matter gradually spirals in toward and accretes onto the object as a result of gravitational attraction." [Credit to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary] Q: Why only 3.8 Solar Mass to 200 Solar Mass? A: Because the smallest black hole ever discovered was 3.8 times the mass of our sun. Any smaller than that, it would collapse into a substellar mass black hole and only exist at the quantum scale, too tiny to be considered an "observable black hole". The largest black hole ever found was 40 Billion times the mass of our sun. That's huge! The reason I set the limit as 200 Solar Mass was because I couldn't replicate 40 Billion Solar Mass in this simulation. (Trust me, I tried... and it crashed my computer.) Q: What even is any of this?! A: It's a scratch project. Enough said. ========= —Enjoy!— =========
