ACCRETION DISK


Meaning of ACCRETION DISK in English

Function: noun

Date: 1972

: a disk of usually gaseous matter surrounding a massive celestial object (as a black hole) in which the matter gradually spirals in toward and accretes onto the object as a result of gravitational attraction

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