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How much time dilation do you get at those masses though?

I’m having more trouble visualizing how accretion disks would work for a binary black hole. Because the light is coming from the disks, not the black holes. So those are what are actually pulsing/girating.

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Unless I screwed up the math, they would be quarter of a light year apart. Plenty of space for each black hole to form its own accretion disk.

Oh that chart is really awful then. It’s showing an accretion disk that’s half a light year in diameter at least.

Yeah, good point on that, too. I bet someone's written a simulator that I could run locally, but I've got a busy day ahead of me :(

I thought that in this case, the light that they detected was coming from the jets coming from the poles, not the disk itself directly.

Since black holes are black holes, the jets are generated by the disk.

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