disk

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Friction within this disk heats the matter to extreme temperatures.

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This region is positioned near the celestial equator and close to the flat disk of the Milky Way, which makes it visible from many locations on Earth during certain seasons.

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Using their new model, the researchers followed how matter spirals inward, forming turbulent, radiation-dominated disks around stellar mass black holes.

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As the star was destroyed, its remains formed a spinning disk around the black hole.

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The hot Jupiters in this group also match other expectations for planets that traveled inward within a disk.

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