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Need advice on thin accretion disk model
I'm a physics teacher and I'm building a simple accretion disk model to show to students in an astrophysics class (undergraduate level), as an exemple of physics modeling. I need to know if this ...
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Why does most galaxies resemble a 2 dimensional plane? [duplicate]
Older galaxies mostly tend the revolve forming a disk. Why are the stars not revolving around the center of the galaxy like a sphere instead similar to electron in an atom?