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This delayed infall means the entire star does not collapse all at once.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

A comparison of the observations with the models supports a gravitational infall scenario which can explain the asymmetric mass accretion seen in the shape of spirals and streamers, as seen around forming stars.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024

Dropping things from far away into the much stronger gravity of a black hole is much more effective in turning the energy released by infall into other forms of energy.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

This huge, sudden input of energy reverses the infall of these layers and drives them explosively outward.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

I do not mean that they are lines cut into his surface by the actual infall of a satellite.

From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John