Black-hole process

Bondi Accretion

The idealised, spherically symmetric capture of surrounding gas by a compact object, worked out by Hermann Bondi in 1952. It sets a benchmark rate at which a black hole or neutron star can swallow the gas around it, and underlies estimates of how quiescent supermassive black holes such as Sgr A* are fed.

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›The benchmark rate for swallowing surrounding gas

Black Hole
Accretion Disk
Sagittarius A*

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Associated withAccretion Disk
Associated withSagittarius A*

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Bondi Accretion

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Bondi Accretion

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