Sentences with phrase «most astronomers thought»

The work suggests that some planetary systems were born billions of years before most astronomers thought the universe had spawned the raw materials needed to make them.

Most astronomers think that these objects generate their enormous amounts of energy as gravity and friction heat material that falls into a central «supermassive» black hole.

The cloud may even be much closer than most astronomers think and be part of the debris of a nearby supernova.

Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of dark matter, the mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible matter and so far has eluded all attempts to detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).

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«most people still somehow think we humans are the culmination of the evolutionary tree - and that hardly seems credible to an astronomer.

Astronomers had thought most large stars were single, and based their models of galactic evolution on this assumption.

«I got the feeling that most of the Berkeley astronomers thought my idea was a little wild,» Townes, a Nobel laureate who died in 2015, recalled in a 2006 account for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Astronomers, at least some of them, think they know how planets form: Chunks of rock orbiting a star in a protoplanetary disk collide and stick together, eventually clearing a path through the disk as most of the rocks in the orbit smack onto the growing planet.

Hitherto, most astronomers have thought that the Galaxy formed within about a billion years of the big bang.

Zapped with cosmic rays and ultraviolet light, the space between the stars is so hostile that most astronomers once thought it couldn't possibly harbor something as fragile as molecules.

Astronomers think supermassive black holes — which can contain millions or billions of times the mass of the sun — reside at the cores of most, if not all, galaxies.

Although it is close to the line of sight to the globular cluster M15, most astronomers had thought that this source of bright radio waves was probably a distant galaxy.

Red dwarfs are the most common types of stars in our galaxy, and astronomers looking for habitable exoplanets think that the first alien biosignatures will be detected on worlds in these systems.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill - ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe and the nature of reality itself.

While most people tend to think of Green Bank as hiring scientists and astronomers, it takes a village to run the scientific and educational programs.