![169-Black-Hole-2 [169] Black Hole II — This illustration by Don Dixon depicts a high-mass X-ray binary system featuring a red giant star undergoing Roche lobe overflow. Stellar plasma is being stripped from the primary star and channeled into a vast, glowing accretion disk surrounding a central black hole, demonstrating complex orbital dynamics and mass transfer.gas is compressed to x-ray incandescence as it impacts the accretion disk of a black hole; acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 1987; copyright Don Dixon](169-black-hole-red-giant-accretion-dixon.jpg)
[169] Black Hole II — This illustration by Don Dixon depicts a high-mass X-ray binary system featuring a red giant star undergoing Roche lobe overflow. Stellar plasma is being stripped from the primary star and channeled into a vast, glowing accretion disk surrounding a central black hole, demonstrating complex orbital dynamics and mass transfer.gas is compressed to x-ray incandescence as it impacts the accretion disk of a black hole; acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 1987; copyright Don Dixon
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![169-Black-Hole-2 [169] Black Hole II — This illustration by Don Dixon depicts a high-mass X-ray binary system featuring a red giant star undergoing Roche lobe overflow. Stellar plasma is being stripped from the primary star and channeled into a vast, glowing accretion disk surrounding a central black hole, demonstrating complex orbital dynamics and mass transfer.gas is compressed to x-ray incandescence as it impacts the accretion disk of a black hole; acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 1987; copyright Don Dixon](../index.html#img=169-black-hole-red-giant-accretion-dixon.jpg)