How do sunspots move seen from the side?

Question

Sunspots rise vertically? Do they float on the surface like oil? Do they flow up or down vertically from the Sun's core like a lava lamp?

I don't understand what's being asked here. How can we describe the shape of a sunspot better than a picture on Google images? — Sir Cumference, Feb 6, 2018 at 23:46
Can't fool me: your first picture isn't a sunspot. It's the Eye of Sauron — Carl Witthoft, Feb 7, 2018 at 14:27

bandybabboon · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-07 12:38:08Z

The sunspots are actually depressions and low thermal pressure zones.

Incredible magnetic fields are piercing the surface of the sun and the magnetic force pacifies the movement and the convection at the zone of the sunspot. that's why the surface becomes darker clouds near those magnetic fields.

Elsewhere, the sun's surface has convection wells called solar granules a bit like a lava lamp, which are about 1000km diameter. You can check images of "solar convection" to study maps of convection.

At a sunspot the movement of colder plasma flows downwards, and there is a hot spot trapped under the sunpot where the thermal energy escapes radially away from the sunspot.