Luminet Blackhole

Recreating the simulated image of the observed flux from the black hole's accretion disk from "Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk.", Luminet, J. -P., AAP, 75, 228-235 (1979).

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Running

Run cargo run --release -- --help to see options.

To generate a 2K resolution image of the observed flux from an inclination of 80 degrees, run:

cargo run --release -- flux -i 80 flux_80.png

Alternate Implementations

Huge thanks to these projects for identifying the errors in the paper's equations:

• https://github.com/bgmeulem/Luminet
• https://github.com/peytondmurray/bhsim