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• The Shrinking Doughnut Around a Black Hole

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 651
  Homer Simpson would be sad: recent observations of the binary system of a black hole and its companion star have shown the retreat of the doughnut-shaped accretion disk around the black hole. This shrinking doughnut was seen in observations of the binary system GX 339-4, a system composed of a star similar in mass ...
  1 week ago

• Astronomers take deep look into material around black holes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, December 9 (ANI): An international research team has taken a deep look into the shape and geometry of the accreting material around the black hole in nearby Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).The team, led by Makoto Kishimoto from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, combined infrared imaging ...
  1 week ago

• On the Formation of Giant Exoplanets

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 132
  In a paper to be published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, available online now here , astronomers report their results of the modeling of planet formation in a system that develops within a cluster of stars, and has a type of gravitational encounter with a neighbor. The authors note that “the majority of stars in ...
  2 weeks ago

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