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by pointlessone 918 days ago
I thought infalling matter radiates because of friction in accretion disc. Does a similar structure form in a much denser interior of a star?
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Matter falling into a spinning black hole surrounded mostly by vacuum forms an accretion disc. But friction and heating and radiation will occur in infalling matter no matter how it is falling in. A black hole inside a star would probably not just have an accretion disc, it would have accretion happening in all directions. But the accretion would still involve friction and heating and radiation.
Would there be a disk at the center of a star? Not a lot of angular momentum there.