Sentences with phrase «companion star falling»

This artist's illustration shows a black hole (center of disk) with matter from a massive companion star falling onto it.

As gas from the companion star falls toward the compact star, the latter swirls round into an accretion disk.

Not exact matches

Matter falling from a companion star onto a white dwarf might have induced a thermonuclear chain reaction that forced the dwarf to expand radically without exploding into a more common nova, Bond notes.

Hubble observations suggest that as Nasty 1 sheds its weight, some of the mass is falling onto a companion star and some is leaking into space, forming the disk.

The red giant's atmosphere slows the companion star down, and it begins to fall inward.

Material falling from the exploded star onto the compact companion would have been heated and blasted back into space in two narrow jets, along with a beam of radiation.

It is thought that a companion planet is orbiting the star, and its passing gravitational pull disrupts the rate of the gas falling onto the forming star, providing a variation in the observed brightness, or light curve, of the star.

O'Hara starred in the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Sitting Pretty (1948), the comedy that launched the Mr. Belvedere films, and the original The Parent Trap (1961), worked with directors Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance, 1940), Jean Renoir (This Land in Mine, 1943, again with Laughton), Nicholas Ray (A Woman's Secret, 1949), Carol Reed (Our Man in Havana, 1959) and Sam Peckinpah (The Deadly Companions, 1961), and appeared opposite Tyrone Power (The Black Swan, 1942), Henry Fonda (three times, starring with Immortal Sergeant, 1943), John Garfield (The Fallen Sparrow, 1943), Errol Flynn (Against All Flags, 1952), and James Stewart twice (Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, 1962, The Rare Breed, 1966).