#accretion disk

Black holes have a reputation problem. 🕳️ We picture them as cosmic vacuum cleaners, pull everything in, nothing escapes. New observations of a black hole 2.7 kpc away just complicated that story. Astronomers watched it feed on a companion star... and also blast huge amounts of that material right back out into space, through jets and winds, even after it had faded to 1% of its peak brightness. Turns out black holes aren't just swallowing. They're digesting. 🌌 #Astrophysics #BlackHole #Space

Drew some black holes :3

A transient ultraluminous X-ray source in the Whale galaxy defies standard accretion models A new study of the transient ultraluminous X-ray source X-4 in NGC 4631 reveals extreme luminosity variability and spectral behavior consistent with super-Eddington accretion and radiatively driven winds.... https://skycr.org/2026/06/26/ulx-ngc4631-whale-galaxy-super-eddington-accretion/

In the spirit of the release of Elysium Dancehall's now baller music video with sea power, I'm going to finally get off my ass and finish polishing up that accretion disk chapter!!! I've had chapter 9 like 90% done for 4 months now and that just ain't cool. I will do my part to push back the pale ggggghhhh

To everyone following this Tumblr for Accretion Disk and are caught up on last months chapter bullshit I have a very important question:

Draw,,,,,