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matter and accreting
The bright nucleus indicates the presence of an active galactic nucleus-a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at the center, accreting matter from the bar.
As a galaxy gained mass ( by accreting smaller galaxies ) the dark matter stays mostly on the outer parts of the galaxy.
A black hole that is accreting infalling matter can become active, emitting a strong wind through a collimated relativistic jet.
Hercules X-1 is composed of a neutron star accreting matter from a normal star ( HZ Herculis ) probably due to Roche lobe overflow.
They form in close binary systems, one component being a white dwarf accreting matter from the other ordinary star component, and may recur over periods of decades to centuries or millennia.
In this type of accretion, which is important for accretion rates well below the Eddington limit, the accreting matter does not form a thin disc and consequently does not radiate away the energy that it has acquired in moving close to the black hole.
Because the black hole is currently accreting matter, polar jets can be seen emanating from the galaxy, and it has very strong radio emissions.
The brightest of these sources may be an intermediate-mass black hole that is accreting matter.
In an astronomical context, relativistic beaming commonly occurs in two oppositely-directed relativistic jets of plasma that originate from a central compact object that is accreting matter.
In 1967 ( before the discovery of pulsars ), Iosif Shklovsky examined X-ray and optical observations of Scorpius X-1 and correctly concluded that the radiation comes from a neutron star accreting matter from a companion.
The measured luminosity for Scorpius X-1 is consistent with a neutron star which is accreting matter at its Eddington limit.
Analogous to the process leading to novae, degenerate matter can also accumulate on the surface of a neutron star that is accreting gas from a close companion.
If a white dwarf, which is composed almost entirely of degenerate matter, can steadily gain mass by accreting gas from a companion, the increasing temperature and density of material in its core will ignite carbon fusion when the star's mass approaches the Chandrasekhar limit.
The nova outburst can be explained by a white dwarf that is accreting matter from a companion ; most likely a low-mass main sequence star.
NGC 1300 is not known to have an active nucleus, however, indicating either that there is no black hole, or that it is not accreting matter.

matter and onto
In astrophysics, mass transfer is the process by which matter gravitationally bound to a body, usually a star, fills its Roche lobe and becomes gravitationally bound to a second body, usually a compact object ( white dwarf, neutron star or black hole ), and is eventually accreted onto it.
As described above, the collapse of a rotating cloud of gas and dust leads to the formation of an accretion disk through which matter is channeled onto a central protostar.
When art critic Franz Roh applied the term magic realism to visual art in 1925, he was designating a style of visual art that brings extreme realism to the depiction of mundane subject matter, revealing an " interior " mystery, rather than imposing external, overtly magical features onto this everyday reality.
The Be-star equatorial disk provides a reservoir of matter that can be accreted onto the NS during periastron passage ( most known systems have large orbital eccentricity ) or during large-scale disk ejection episodes.
As it is of the nature of paintings to be flat objects with canvas surfaces onto which colored pigment is applied, such things as figuration, 3-D perspective illusion and references to external subject matter were all found to be extraneous to the essence of painting, and ought to be removed.
In November 2007, researchers at the Pierre Auger Observatory announced that they had evidence that UHECRs appear to come from the active galactic nuclei ( AGNs ) of energetic galaxies powered by matter swirling onto a supermassive black hole.
The holodeck is depicted as an enclosed room in which objects and people are simulated by a combination of transported matter, replicated matter, tractor beams, and shaped force fields onto which holographic images are projected.
Although kookaburras are restricted to a relatively small part of the world, the distinctive sound of the Laughing Kookaburra makes has found its way onto many " jungle sound " soundtracks, used in filmmaking and television productions as well as certain Disney theme park attractions, no matter where in the world the action is set.
As long as the surrounding matter is falling onto the central condensation, it is considered to be in protostar stage.
In early 2007, Meiko performed at the Sundance Film Festival and caught the ear of Paste Magazine editor Josh Jackson, who declared her a " big success story " waiting to happen, predicting it was " only a matter of time " before she found her way onto Nic Harcourt's influential “ Morning Becomes Eclectic ” radio program on KCRW.
The ability of a blade to cut arises from the concentration of the force applied to the blade onto a very small area, resulting in a high pressure on the matter to be penetrated.
They can also be used to remove particulate matter from air streams by first charging the air, and then passing the charged stream through a comb of alternating polarity, to deposit the charged particles onto oppositely charged plates.
An anonymous member of the band has been quoted as commenting that " the recordings were so shit it wouldn ’ t matter if they were copied onto washing up sponges ".
Smears are also effective in diverting attention away from the matter in question and onto the individual or group.
Sunyaev and Nikolay I. Shakura developed a model of accretion onto black holes, from a disk, and he has proposed a signature for X-radiation from matter spiraling into a black hole.
While this investigatory function is important, procedures such as the House discharge petition process ( the process of bringing a bill onto the floor without a committee report or mandatory consent from its leadership ) are so difficult to implement that committee jurisdiction over particular subject matter of bills has expanded into semi-autonomous power.
Progressivism moves the focus off the subject matter the student is learning, onto the student himself ; in other words, how useful or valuable is the information to the student?
Green found the atmosphere of coming onto a film so late tense and exciting, and also liked the film's ambiguity in approaching its subject matter.
The dot pattern was then photographed onto a metal plate coated with photoresist, which was developed and chemically etched, a process known as photoengraving and already in use for making printing plates from line drawings, handwriting and other purely black and white subject matter.
Bondi also contributed to the theory of accretion of matter from a cloud of gas onto a star or a black hole, working with Raymond Lyttleton and giving his name to " Bondi accretion " and the " Bondi radius ".
King also painted the matter as one relating to democracy, insisting that the Governor General had had no right to refuse his prime minister's advice, while Meighen denounced King's actions as " a shameless attempt to hang onto power and avoid imminent defeat by the people's elected representatives.
Regarding whether the things that happen to Johnny really do happen or are all a matter of perception, as Johnny escapes his problems by projecting fantasy onto reality, Pratchett has said:

matter and black
Included matter of a green, golden, red, black or other color or combinations embedded in the chalcedony and disposed in filaments and other forms suggestive of vegetable growth, gives rise to dendritic or moss agate.
This might include such ordinary matter as neutrinos or free electrons ; however, it may also include exotic species of non-baryonic dark matter, such as supersymmetric particles, axions, or black holes.
Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.
Gravitational collapse of matter into black holes is also thought to power the most energetic processes, generally seen at the centers of galaxies ( see quasars and active galaxies ).
This galaxy cluster features two cavities 600, 000 light-years in diameter, caused by its central supermassive black hole, which emits jets of matter.
It has a supermassive black hole at its core, which expels massive jets of matter that emit radio waves due to synchrotron radiation.
The radiation from an active galactic nucleus results from the gravitational energy of matter as it falls toward the black hole from the disc.
The creation of a supermassive black hole appears to play a key role in actively regulating the growth of galaxies by limiting the total amount of additional matter added.
Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.
Hawking's calculation suggested that the radiation which black holes emit is not related in any way to the matter that they absorb.
The outgoing light rays start exactly at the edge of the black hole and spend a long time near the horizon, while the infalling matter only reaches the horizon much later.
Susskind argued that the oscillation of the horizon of a black hole is a complete description of both the infalling and outgoing matter, because the world-sheet theory of string theory was just such a holographic description.
For this reason, large volumes of organic matter that was unable to decompose accumulated, eventually being deposited as " black shale ".
The LORD MAYOR: I am afraid it was the gentleman in black that directed you in this matter.
It is a consequence of general relativity that, in sufficiently intense gravitational fields, matter collapses to form a black hole.
This means that it is possible that most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have gone through an active stage ( appearing as a quasar or some other class of active galaxy depending on black hole mass and accretion rate ) and are now quiescent because they lack a supply of matter to feed into their central black holes to generate radiation.
Nine years later, in 2005, the Illinois Attorney General filed a second petition with the FDA again seeking black box warnings and " Dear Doctor " letters emphasizing the risk of tendon rupture ; the FDA responded it had not yet been able to reach a decision on the matter.

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