accretion
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But he built his oeuvre out of accretion, on the artworks of other artists, especially the Readymades of Marcel Duchamp.
This points to changes in how the accretion disk and corona interact over roughly the last 6.5 billions of years.
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A new study presents the most detailed and complete model yet of luminous black hole accretion, the process by which black holes pull in surrounding matter and emit intense radiation.
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These new measurements support a key prediction of general relativity and could help scientists investigate black hole spin, accretion physics, and how jets form.
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One possible explanation for the ultraluminosity is that an extraordinary amount of gas falls onto a compact object through a process called supercritical accretion.
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