disk
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Using their new model, the researchers followed how matter spirals inward, forming turbulent, radiation-dominated disks around stellar mass black holes.
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As the star was destroyed, its remains formed a spinning disk around the black hole.
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The hot Jupiters in this group also match other expectations for planets that traveled inward within a disk.
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The new research, however, shows that similar dusty structures around younger systems should be visible for roughly the first 50 million years of a debris disk's lifetime.
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It makes a wide variety of motors used in everything from hard disk drives to electric vehicles and also produces machine tools, inspection devices and cooling equipment used at data centers.
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