Pouf - and it's gone

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Pouf - and it's gone
...and I thought "accretion disk" was something thrown by athletes of Crete during their Olympic Games ;)

hehe!

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory originally shared:

This animation shows what happens when matter falls onto the accretion disk around a black hole.
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/gcle/animations.html

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