accretion
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Farah's model suggests that some of the material blasted outward by the explosion later fell back toward the newborn magnetar, forming an accretion disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Strong earnings accretion combined with further geographic and asset-class expansion is a logical step, he adds, reiterating the buy rating on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
"With XRISM, we have the greatest resolution observing the brightest AGN and we're getting the richest information on outflows that we have observed so far for an accretion disk," Xiang said.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
At its center is an active galactic nucleus, or AGN, where a supermassive black hole is actively consuming material and generating a luminous accretion disk.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
If his face was a supernova before, it became an accretion disc—one of the brightest objects in the universe—as soon as he tasted his lettuce.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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