Multiple Choice
Gas can be pulled off a binary companion by a black hole. The black hole's event horizon is too small to allow all the gas to enter perpendicularly, so it orbits in a ring around the black hole or a neutron star. What is this ring called?
A) gas ring
B) Kerr disk
C) accretion disk
D) ergoregion
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