What Is an Accretion Disk

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Multiple Choice

What is an accretion disk?

• A)any flattened disk in space, such as the disk of the Milky Way Galaxy
• B)a disk of material found around every white dwarf in the Milky Way Galaxy
• C)a disk of hot gas swirling rapidly around a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole
• D)a stream of gas flowing from one star to its binary companion star

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