Sentences with phrase «diameter of the accretion»
This enabled the astronomers to measure the diameter of the accretion disc and plot its various temperatures, providing a new experimental confirmation of how quasars work.
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Brown believes that this wide variation is a sign that the biggest Kuiper belt objects were produced not from gradual accretion, but from a small number of collisions among large objects, beginning with ones on the order of 500 kilometers in diameter.