A compact body pulls material from a binary companion.This material plunges toward the compact body,forms an accretion disk,and emits X-rays.Which phenomenon would this description NOT fit?

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Novae do not involve a compact body pulling material from a binary companion. Instead, novae occur when a white dwarf pulls in material from a companion star and this material undergoes a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of the white dwarf. The other options all involve a compact object (such as a neutron star or black hole) pulling in material from a binary companion and emitting X-rays from the accretion disk.

A Compact Body Pulls Material from a Binary Companion