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What happens to the accretion disk when two black holes merge?
I'm aware that accretion disks around black holes are formed from the swirling mass of matter that is slowly being stripped of its atoms, but what happens to it when two black holes merge? I was ...
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Wind-fed Accretion and White Dwarf stars
Can a White Dwarf star in a binary system accrete matter via the Wind-fed accretion process?
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Paradox from mass transfer in a close stellar binary
I'm considering a simple binary system made of two stars, of mass $m_1$ and $m_2 < m_1$, on circular orbits around their center of mass. Using Newton's theory of gravitation, it is easy to prove ...
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