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The 61 pages that link to Accretion disk, each with the reason it gives.

• Active galactic nucleusBroader topic: Infalling gas forms a hot disk that releases much of an active nucleus’s radiation.

• QuasarBroader topic: In a quasar, the disk around the black hole supplies most of the observed luminosity.

• Differential rotationBroader topic: Its orbital rate generally decreases with distance, producing differential rotation.

• AstrophysicsBroader topic: Viscous heating in these disks powers bright emission around young stars and compact objects.

• Seyfert galaxyBroader topic: Infalling material heats in the disk and supplies much of the nucleus’s luminosity.

• Astrophysical fluid dynamicsBroader topic: Disk evolution depends on fluid transport of angular momentum and heat.

• Cataclysmic variable starBroader topic: Transferred gas often settles into a disk around the white dwarf before accreting.

• NGC 1275Broader topic: Accretion onto the central black hole powers NGC 1275’s active nucleus.

• Astrophysical X-ray sourceBroader topic: Friction and compression heat infalling matter until the disk radiates X-rays.

• Laboratory studies of space and astrophysical plasmasBroader topic: Experiments examine magnetic instabilities that may drive angular-momentum transport in disks.