So that would mean that the right side is tipped slightly away from us, right? Because the matter in the accretion disk starts approaching us at about halfway down the ring on the right side?

Already watched the video, thanks. However in his example the disk is not perpendicular to the viewer so the beaming makes more sense there I think.

On the other hand, "almost exactly from the top" is not the same as "exactly from the top".

Oh, interesting! Wouldn't it be easier to photograph our own? :-)

The observed both supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy Sagittarius A