This short film shows matter being transferred from the normal star in a stellar binary system to the degenerate star. These X-ray binaries are two stars which rotate around each other.
Material is drawn from the normal star and spirals in via an accretion disk onto the compact star.
Intense X-ray emission is released from the inner region of the accretion disk where it falls onto the collapsed star. Show me a printable version of this page. Please let us know .