[SunkenCiv]

[Illustration Credit: April Hobart, CXC]

[rktman]

Pictures from Bejing?

[PreciousLiberty]

Just bear in mind that the innermost part of the accretion disk is far hotter and brighter than the surface of the Sun. A picture like that would have to be taken through a VERY dark filter. ;-)

[KoRn]

They really SHOULDN’T have put this on the APOD.

Indeed it’s rather cool looking, but that wasn’t the place for it.

[TheZMan]

I love how artists continually screw up the “gravity well” by thinking it’s an actual depression in the disc.

Doing so violates the laws of physics by having the upper “rim” of the well orbiting nothing.