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"The image gives the first direct glimpse of a black hole’s accretion disk, a fuzzy doughnut-shaped ring of gas and dust that steadily “feeds” the monster within."

A black hole has spherical characteristics - it is a sphere. A doughnut is flat in one plane. A sphere can't have a doughnut "around" it. It may very well be that an image of the system may look like a doughnut from a single observation point far away. However, the actual 'ring of gas' cannot be a doughnut that just 'happens' to be perpendicular to our observation point. It must actually be a 'sphere of gas'.

15 posted on 04/10/2019 6:42:12 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)

According to the illustration, it would be a disc, not a sphere. Which begs a lot of questions about the photo.

37 posted on 04/10/2019 8:07:03 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)

A sphere can't have a doughnut "around" it.

Sure it can; stick the munchkin back in the hole. But it will be around it only in one plane.

39 posted on 04/10/2019 9:18:18 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)