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) a gas ring
B) a Kerr disk
C) an accretion disk
D) an ergoregion
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