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Why doesn the black hole at the center of the Milky Way have an accretion disk?

April 26, 2017accretion black hole center disk milky way

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Why doesn the black hole at the center of the Milky Way have an accretion disk?

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I’m not sure this is completely understood. There are apparently no stars near enough to it to feed it continuously with matter and create an accretion disk (or at least, a large enough disk to create a lot of x-rays). Possibly it’s already eaten its nearest neighbors and is currently on a starvation diet.