Painting a Kerr black hole: a backward null-geodesic ray tracer with a real astrophotograph

[mthiel (Marco Thiel)]

“Hook image: a viewport screenshot from inside an interactive Wolfram viewer, looking at a 360-degree black-hole panorama generated by OpenAI’s gpt-image-2. This is AI art – striking, but not derived from general relativity. The rest of the notebook builds the same scene from physics, in pure Wolfram Language. See Section 11 for the viewer itself.”

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