accretion

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Active galactic nuclei occur when material spirals into a galaxy's central black hole, forming an extremely hot accretion disk.

From Science Daily

When ALT5’s stock trades below the value of its underlying tokens, Witkoff said it could also buy back shares “as a complementary lever to drive accretion.”

From Barron's

“It was an accretion, a tipping point,” Mr. Haass, the former official, later told the journalist George Packer.

From New York Times

Don’t have a ruler on me but certainly close to quarter-inch radial ice accretion on tree limbs in downtown Ann Arbor.

From Washington Post

Opatrný says using the radiation from accretion disks would be particularly clever, because the disks convert energy more efficiently than the thermonuclear reaction in conventional stars.

From Science Magazine