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What does infalling mean?

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Adjective
  1. (astronomy) Moving towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity
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This is a valid point of view for external observers, but not for infalling observers.
Some of the infalling matter becomes re-directed out of the accretion disk as dual, oppositely directed jets.
This did not strictly contradict Oppenheimer's results, but extended them to include the point of view of infalling observers.
Langer and his colleagues tracked the infalling gas by measuring the velocity of a trace component, dicarbon monosulfide, which emits radio waves.

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