How to Use accretion disk in a Sentence

accretion disk

noun

• The accretion disk is the dark area at the narrowest point of the wing.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
• The particles are in a thin accretion disk, where the swirling pace nears the speed of light.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 Sep. 2019
• This build up of matter on the edge of black holes are known as accretion disks.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2018
• Next up, there's the cloud of dust and gas itself, called an accretion disk.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2019
• Some of that light hits the accretion disk, which absorbs it, heats up, and then emits light of its own.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2019
• There's clearly a lot left to learn about black holes and their accretion disks.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
• The dust and gas in a black hole’s accretion disk don’t help with detection.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2024
• Because of this, any change in the accretion disk will later be echoed within the torus.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2018
• Streams of gas blowing from the star are captured by the black hole and spun into an accretion disk.
  — Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2019
• In the case of a star and a black hole, matter from the star forms a ring of material called an accretion disk around the black hole.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2016
• The black hole sucks matter from the giant star, forming a swirling accretion disk that drains into the black hole.
  — Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2020
• The simulated black hole yanked and pulled the very fabric of space around it, which caused the accretion disk to wobble.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• The body could be a small galaxy in the disk of a large galaxy or a planet in an accretion disk [the dusty structure around a newborn star].
  — Corey S. Powell, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2015
• The rest makes a tasty meal for the black hole, which pulls the material into its hot, glowing accretion disk made of gas.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
• This generates an accretion disk, a glowing structure at the edges of a black hole.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• The team researched the gas in the accretion disk, a rotating ring of matter that emits x-rays and visible light to help show where the black hole is, to see the gas’s movement.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2022
• As the material from the accretion disk falls into the black hole, jets of energy form along the axis of the merger.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2016
• In these cases, matter from the star falls into its ultradense partner, and the swirling gas forms what's known as an accretion disk around the black hole's maw.
  — National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2018
• Black holes feed off of material from the accretion disk, pulling spirals of gas inside that heat up.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 June 2020
• The researchers discovered that the star is forming from the center of a rotating disk of gas and dust, called an accretion disk, just like smaller stars such as the sun.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2016
• However, the dense plasma that surrounds them, known as an accretion disk, does.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 May 2022
• These accretion disks then squeeze energy and particles out their poles like toothpaste from a tube, at nearly the speed of light.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• On a scale of several weeks, strong magnetic fields should stir the accretion disk and produce hotter spots that then orbit the black hole.
  — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
• The radio waves’ voyage began when they were first emitted from particles in the black hole’s accretion disk.
  — Katie McCormick, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
• Black shadows near these regions are accretion disks of swirling gas and dust — some of which could be in the process of creating planetary systems.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• More precisely, some change in their accretion disk—that swirl of hot matter that encircles the feeding black hole—is the true culprit.
  — Shannon Hall, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2019
• The emitted X-rays can sometimes reflect off the accretion disk, creating ‘echoes’ of the initial emission.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 May 2022
• Such wobbly accretion disks might also surround the much smaller stellar black holes, which are typically around three to 20 times the mass of the sun.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• This in turn can form a rotating ring of matter (aka an accretion disk) around the black hole that emits powerful X-rays and visible light.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2020
• The glow occurs as gas in the accretion disk becomes hot and emits energy in the ultraviolet range.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024