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Accretion Disks
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Accretion Disks book
Accretion Disks
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Accretion Disks book
ByH Spruit
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2000
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 8
eBook ISBN 9781003220435
ABSTRACT
By accretion one understands in astrophysics the accumulation of matter onto a heavy object, under the influence of its pull of gravity. The object can be, for example, a star, a black hole or a neutron star. Most of the objects of these types are quite isolated, without much gas around that could be pulled in by their gravity