This newly expanded and thoroughly updated third edition examines accretion as a source of energy in both binary star systems containing compact objects, and in active galactic nuclei. Assuming a ...

9, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Scaringi at Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestriche Physik in Garching, Germany, and colleagues was titled, 'Accretion-induced ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different sized ...

The latest X-ray observatory found a warped black hole disk and a supernova spewing iron — and it’s just getting started ...

Truss, M. R. Wynn, G. A. Murray, J. R. and King, A. R. 2002. The origin of the rebrightening in soft X-ray transient outbursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

XRISM is transforming our understanding of supermassive black holes and their galactic neighborhoods, providing ...

Researchers conducted innovative simulations of spinning black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

Astronomers from Italy and Chile have investigated an accreted stellar stream named Icarus in the Milky Way's disk. Results ...

Gas swirls around a black hole due to its intense gravity, forming an accretion disk. These accretion disks, being among the most efficient energy conversion mechanisms in the universe ...

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Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...