A Swift survey of accretion onto stellar-mass black holes · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.2249/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Swift survey of accretion onto stellar-mass black holes — mentioned by raattgifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15715691urn:hackerpapers:mention:1112.2249:15715691Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:26:28 GMT<p>&gt; AFAIK, only supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies have disks of material that is falling inward Stellar binaries are extremely common, and there is a reasonably large supply of binarys where one star has become a compact object. Their companion stars often drop lots of matter onto them, resulting in a reasonable supply of black holes. Diskoseismologists and others working on Swift have catalogued hundreds of stellar mass black hole accretion disks. Examples from Swift: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ...769...16R https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2249 (preprint version) Swift…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1112.2249/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE