This NASA inspired 32 by 16 inch mat, accurately highlights the ways light is warped by the gravity of a black hole. T
The black hole sits in an environment inscribed with latitude and longitude lines, and is orbited by a rainbow-colored disk. The colors can help interpret how light paths are affected by the black hole.
For instance, the background is colored to be orange above the black hole and blue below it, but inside the “Einstein Ring” we see the colors are inverted, coming from opposite sides of the sky. Similarly, the color coding of the surrounding disk highlights the inverted view of the underside of the disk seen close to the black hole.
