Artistic Rendition of Strong Winds Disrupting the Outer Disc Of Material Surrounding a Stellar-mass (IMAGE)

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Artistic Rendition of Strong Winds Disrupting the Outer Disc Of Material Surrounding a Stellar-mass

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Artistic rendition of strong winds disrupting the outer disc of material surrounding a stellar-mass black hole. The disk material (mostly in yellow) is first pulled from the outer parts of a nearby star (upper right-hand). The stellar-mass black hole sits at the center of the approximately 5 million kilometer disc, but it only consumes the material if and when it reaches the central 30 kilometers.

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NASA/Swift/A. Simonnet, Sonoma State University

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