Black-hole process
Bondi Accretion
The idealised, spherically symmetric capture of surrounding gas by a compact object, worked out by Hermann Bondi in 1952. It sets a benchmark rate at which a black hole or neutron star can swallow the gas around it, and underlies estimates of how quiescent supermassive black holes such as Sgr A* are fed.
Highlights
- ›The benchmark rate for swallowing surrounding gas
Classes, physics & objects
Knowledge connections
- Associated withBlack Hole
- Associated withAccretion Disk
- Associated withSagittarius A*
Sources
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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