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Circular gravitational field
Why do all heavy masses in the universe always have circular gravitational field and why do objects 'falling' under their spacetime influence always fall in circles? For example, accretion disks ...
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Are the particles in the accretion disk in free fall around the black hole?
I know that black hole can feed off the material in the accretion disk and gain mass, the accretion disk is also powered by the black hole to move at a fraction of speed of light. I am wondering are ...
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Is an exact description of accretion flow possible very close to a Schwarzschild black hole?
While modelling accretion disks around Schwarzschild black holes, various pseudo-Newtonian potentials are prescribed and then compared to general relativistic results. Though the pseudo-Newtonian ...
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Star vs Blackhole - Accretion Disk
Simple question: can we prove that what we call today a "star" is not a accretion disk of a "tiny" black hole that happens to rotate in all the 3 axis?
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