by measuring closer to the inner edge of the accretion disk than ever before," said Lynne Hillenbrand of Caltech in Pasadena, California, and a co-author of the paper. "I think there was some hope ...

Lynne Hillenbrand, a co-author of the study, noted, “I think there was some hope that we would see something extra, like the interface between the star and its disk, but we were certainly not ...