Sentences with phrase «surrounding torus»
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Astronomers have known for some time that certain black holes were surrounded by thick, dense disks of gas and dust called tori.
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The team tracked the heat of the third outburst for almost two weeks after its discovery to investigate how volcanoes influence Io's atmosphere and how these eruptions feed a doughnut of ionized gas - the Io plasma torus - that surrounds Jupiter near Io's orbit.
They include a pair of stars in orbit around each other, with circumstellar disks surrounding each star and a circumbinary torus and disk that orbits the combination.