A Star Feeds Its Companion: Astronomers Reveal the True Face of the Accretion Disk
Sep 09, 2026
Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed the first comprehensive profile of the system 2MASS J06281154+164439.3, and discovered that the transferred material does not directly impact the primary star. Instead, it forms a rotating structure—an accretion disk.
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