Black Hole Geodesic Renderer

A good distance away

Huh, what is this image distortion?

Getting closer

This Black Hole distorts the path of light around it, creating a distinctive ring around it.

Full view

You can see the Einstein ring, the black photon sphere, and most obvious, the accretion disc. It warps around the black hole because light coming from the hidden part of the disc gets bend around it.

The accretion disc

The disc of hot matter, glowing bright as it slowly falls inwards.

Passing the disc

Getting even closer, you see more images of the disc. The ring on the top comes from light which took a half orbit around the hole, the ring below it is from light which traveled 1 1/2 orbits. And depending on view you can even spot 2 1/2 orbit light.

To close!

If you are this close you experience extreme distortion of spacetime. Oh, and you will not come out again.

Infalling view from the outside

Some light still reaches you from outside. It gets brigther and shifted to the blue by the enormous gravity.

View on the earth

Blue shift effect strongly visible

Last view

The stars shine bright and blue as you pass the Event horizon...

Debugview

A view of a debug ray, showing the path the light from the back part of the disc took to the camera.