The Innermost Stable Circular Orbit

Highlights

• ›The inner edge of an accretion disk

Classes, physics & objects

• Black Hole
• Accretion Disk
• The Schwarzschild Radius
• Black-Hole Mass Measurement

Across compact objects

• Quasi-Periodic Oscillation

Knowledge connections

• Associated withBlack Hole
• Associated withAccretion Disk
• Associated withThe Schwarzschild Radius
• Associated withBlack-Hole Mass Measurement
• Associated withQuasi-Periodic Oscillation

Sources

Facts on this topic will be cited from these primary and reference sources.

• NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.

  Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.