my favourite button ever is "open link in new tab"..
Accretion Disk Binary System - December 26th, 1995.
"Our Sun is unusual in that it is alone - most stars occur in multiple or binary systems. In a binary system, the higher mass star will evolve faster and will eventually become a compact object - either a white dwarf star, a neutron star, or black hole. When the lower mass star later evolves into an expansion phase, it may be so close to the compact star that its outer atmosphere actually falls onto it. Such is the case diagrammed above. Here gas from a blue giant star is shown being stripped away into an accretion disk around its compact binary companion. Gas in the accretion disk swirls around, heats up, and eventually falls onto the compact star. Extreme conditions frequently occur on the surface of the compact star as gas falls in, many times causing detectable X-rays, gamma-rays, or even cataclysmic novae explosions. Studying the extreme conditions in these systems tells us about the inner properties of ordinary matter around us."
talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip
i hate when i browse math-related tags on this site and half the posts are people ranting about how much they hate her. why are you so mean to my wife
once a year i think to myself "it would be cool if i knew things about physics" and then i do nothing to act on it
Give in to applied math (learn fancy ways to braid your and your friends' hair)
Ruth Awad, from “Let me be a lamb in a world that wants my lion”
| madge | usa | 16 | aspiring physics + maths major |
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