If you had, on average, space that was filled with a uniform amount of stationary ... what if the black hole also has angular momentum, instead of mass alone — wasn't solved until Roy Kerr ...

The disk-instability model 9,10,11,12,13,14 was developed to explain outbursts in compact binaries in which a white dwarf accretes from a low-mass companion 15. A cool (neutral) quiescent disk is ...

most of the angular momentum is transferred into the remnant accretion disk. Planets form from material in this disk, through accretion of smaller particles. If you're enjoying this article ...