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What happens when a cool brown dwarf slowly accretes matter?
Let's imagine that we take a brown dwarf close to the minimum mass of a red dwarf.
Then let's allow it a few quadrillion years to cool.
Finally slowly accrete matter at a rate of say 1 Jupiter mass ...
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Is a fusion process possible inside an accretion disk?
Is a fusion process possible inside an accretion disk? As the speed of matter inside an accretion disk approaches the speed of light can an incoming object collide with the disk material and cause a ...
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