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Star gets eaten and spit out?
How does material get swallowed and torn apart by a black hole and have its light vanish. But somehow the same material escapes years later. After its light couldn't even escape?
They watched it for ...
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Why is the common envelope ejected in some accretor-donor systems?
As an example, let us consider a binary system of a neutron star and an evolved star (e.g. red giant) that has expanded, filled its roche lobe, and started the mass transfer onto the neutron star.
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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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