disk
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He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
A total solar eclipse means the Moon's disk will completely cover the Sun - and it is expected to last for six minutes and 23 seconds, the longest on land since 1991.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"It's quite significant. It's not the greatest prize, a total eclipse, but it is a partial eclipse of almost nine-tenths of the sun's disk," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
A circumplanetary disk is the rotating collection of material around a young planet from which moons can form.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Annabeth handed him the letter and the disk of bronze.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
One memorandum from the FBI's legal attache in London, sent two weeks later, noted there were a "number of videos, floppy disks and documentation still to be viewed".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
As gravity pulls those enriched clouds together, they can form rotating disks around young stars, similar to the disk of material that eventually produced our own Solar System.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
It had four kilobytes of memory, a black-and-white monitor and used floppy disks that truly flopped when you shook them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Fazlullah even outlawed an old-fashioned children’s game called Carrom, where we flicked disks across a wooden board.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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