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Because we’re basically looking at it from the “top” of the accretion disk.

I’m not sure which way M87 points, but for Saggitarius A*, shouldn’t we be seeing it pretty much edge on? Our solar system is in the plane of the Milky Way.

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The Solar System sits about 20.5 parsecs above the galactic plane, so not really edge on.

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