Nikolai Shakura is a prominent astrophysicist known for his work in the field of astrophysics, particularly in the study of accretion disks around black holes and neutron stars. He is best known for the Shakura-Sunyaev model (developed in conjunction with Russian physicist Rashid Sunyaev), which describes the properties of accretion disks, such as their thermal structure and luminosity.
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