Does the gravity well i a black hole occur on both sides of the Accretion disc? (double sided blackhole)?

Question

Dipictions explain matter getting pulled into a black hole at one side. However what happens on the other side of the black hole?

Answer 1

The gravity is pretty much even all the way around, just like it is on Earth. The flat accretion disk is just the result of angular momentum of nearby matter. It is also the reason Saturn has flat rings and not just a cloud of stiff orbiting it.

Answer 2

A black hole is a theoretical entity which I do not believe exists.
However ,speculating on the virtues of this theoretical entity is very interesting.
I am going to answer this question on the assumption that black holes are viable entitys.
All the mass and gravity[unlike a normal celestial body]are concentrated at the center.
The gravity well would intensify approching the surface and again after penetrating the event horizon.
The speed of light "C" would mandate that the event horizon was very thin. Maybe much less than 1mm in thickness.
The outside of a black hole would be vastly different than the inside.
As matter approched the surface of say a 1.5 solar mass black hole, the structure of the matter would have to be disassembled and enter the surface as photons or neutrinos
As the photons were produced they would accelerate to the speed of light at the surface.
When they penetrated the less than 1mm thickness of the event horizon they would be faced with a conundrum that may doom the the black hole to non existence.
The surface of a black hole has an orbital velocity of "C" after you penetrate the surface,no mass falls behind you as you sink deeper,therefore the speed of light would exceed "C" which is clearly impossible.
Getting back to the event horizon. Both sides would look the same, orbiting photons in the center of this feature.
I think the quantum effect would cause the surface to glow dimly in white light.
Fast photons on the surface would spiral out,fast photons below the surface would be trapped.
As we delve deeper into the aspects of this anamoly among celestial bodies it seems to reinforce and doom this black hole to nonexistence.
I will leave it at this without going into more whys.
Maybe it will be of some help!
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Answer 3

As the previous person pointed out, the disk is caused by the angular momentum of the material falling into the black hole. If you could see a black hole from above, it would look exactly the same way it does from beneath, but from the side, the disk of material is seen on edge and so it looks different from that angle.