Sentences with phrase «motion of the accretion»

The orbiting motion of the accretion disk can trace the «death spiral» of its matter as it falls into the darkness of what the astrophysicists measure to be a supermassive black hole.

Not exact matches

«We think that the mean motion resonances are acting like a rut, collecting debris from the accretion epoch of Charon,» says New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who also contributed to the new research.

In order to accurately model the behavior of the accretion disk that orbits our galaxy's supermassive black hole, the researchers used a method that tracked the motion and path of individual particles — rather than one that treats the motion of plasma as a macroscopic fluid.