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My first thought was this as well, but I couldn’t initially think of a source of dissipation.
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A good general heuristic for understanding this (and also many other astrophysical phenomena such as e.g. why Saturn's rings have a thickness measured in meters, or are almost perfectly circular) is that it is easy to dissipate energy, and hard to dissipate angular momentum.
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