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accretion disc

n. (alternative spelling of accretion disk English)

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The vortex fueled an accretion disc around the hole, a glowing plane of rubble that spanned more than Earth's orbit around its Sun.

The vortex fuelled an accretion disc around the hole, a glowing plane of rubble that spanned more than Earth's orbit around its Sun.

Yonder comas were no more than its last clotting and sparking before it entered the accretion disc.

The ship was in trailing orbit beyond a huge construction that orbited a star one hundred and fifty thousand light-years beyond the spiral arms of the Home Galaxy, close to the accretion disc of a vast black hole where the Large Magellanic Cloud had once been.

The ship had also spotted a concentrated cluster of occultation events around a halo star more than ten thousand light-years beyond the accretion disc of the giant black hole.

The accretion disc of Ranaath's Star pinwheeled in the background, a sinister wheel of fortune.

And somewhere inside the Core will be the black hole itself and an accretion disc around it, a region perhaps a hundred feet wide in which matter is crushed out of existence as it is dragged into the hole&hellip.

And somewhere inside the Core will be the black hole itself and an accretion disc around it, a region perhaps a hundred feet wide in which matter is crushed out of existence as it is dragged into the hole.

It was the violent winds from the vast accretion disc that had created this relative hollowness.

No passage through the dust-and-gas soup of the accretion disc at the ecliptic.

He was passing to zenith of the complicated accretion disc&hellip.