Goddard Glossary: Accretion

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0:00 A woman with brown and purple hair in a gray shirt talking and gesturing in front of an illustration of a black hole accretion disk. The disk is a spiral of yellows and oranges with a bright jet of yellow and white emanating from its center. The word accretion is spelled out syllabically in white above the woman’s head.

0:04 Flying over a river delta, with bright green vegetation broken up by several small blue streams of water.

0:09 Fade back to the woman talking.

0:16 Slow push in on an image of a black hole, which looks like a fuzzy glowing orange donut with the lower half glowing a brighter yellow, all against a black background. White text in the top right reads "Credit: EHT."

0:19 Back to the woman talking.

0:21 A dark sky glowing faintly brown, speckled with stars. In the lower third, a black hole in space is distorting the stars surrounding it. A bright yellow star is pulled in toward the black hole from the upper left. As it approaches the black hole, it stretches out into a long, ropy beam of light, which orbits around the black hole in a donut shape, expelling puffs of bright yellow light.

0:31 Back to the woman talking.

0:36 An animation of a black hole with an accretion disk on a black background. The accretion disk is bright orange material flowing in concentric rings. The far side of the disk appears bent up over the black hole, giving the whole object a shape like an eye.

0:41 The black hole tips toward the viewer. From the top down, it just looks like a spinning disk of orange and red rings circling the invisible black hole.

0:51 Fade back to the woman talking in front of the accretion disk.