Sentences with phrase «much as a black hole»

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Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.
and ur football knowledge is as much as a 3 y.o. kid knows about black holes... Cech took the ball 5 times from his net (our game in recent past), Cassillas has got even more... all keepers can have a bad day ffs!!
And I'm not really sure where the money goes, into a black hole never to be seen again for the most part so I'm happy to keep as much as possible.
All the previous gravitational - wave detections since the first in September 2015 had been the result of two merging black holes — objects much more massive than a neutron star — which have left only gravitational waves as fleeting clues of their merger.
At the Milky Way's heart, stars circle a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *, which contains about 3.7 million times as much mass as our sun.
GRAVITATIONAL GUZZLER The black hole powering the quasar J1342 +0928 (illustrated) weighs as much as 800 million suns, but it existed when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.
Nearly all galactic cores contain black holes weighing as much as millions or even billions of suns.
Some of the most exotic objects in physics, such as evaporating black holes, cosmic strings and even possible extra dimensions, would induce gravitational waves at much higher frequencies than we can currently detect.
Dopita describes the process as a kind of cosmic indigestion: «It is as if the black hole sucks in too much, too quickly, and it burps out gas.»
And much as one can apparently detect a black hole by seeing how it bends the light attempting to pass by it, I felt I could detect the value of Stephen's work by its gravitational pull on neighboring scientists in his field.
Much smaller black holes (typically weighing several times as much as the sun) result from the explosive death of ultrabright stars, so these dark objects reveal secrets about the stellar life cyMuch smaller black holes (typically weighing several times as much as the sun) result from the explosive death of ultrabright stars, so these dark objects reveal secrets about the stellar life cymuch as the sun) result from the explosive death of ultrabright stars, so these dark objects reveal secrets about the stellar life cycle.
Hawking characterized that bet as his insurance policy because he had so much invested in it turning out to be a black hole, so he bet against his hopes.
In September 2015, the gigantic LIGO detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed gravitational waves from two black holes weighing 29 and 36 times as much as the sun as they spiraled together and became one.
By tracking the positions and properties of hundreds of millions of randomly distributed particles as they collide and annihilate each other near a black hole, the new model reveals processes that produce gamma rays with much higher energies, as well as a better likelihood of escape and detection, than ever thought possible.
The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.
Moreover, much closer to the black hole, the field could be as great as several hundred gauss, the team estimates.
The most powerful jets, called quasars, arise when black holes weighing as much as billions of suns fling infalling matter and energy back out into the galaxy, heating up loads of dust and gas and creating blinding beams of energy.
Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.
Tiny black holes, weighing as much as a star, simply didn't have enough time to clump together into the behemoths.
Among the most luminous things in the universe are active galactic nuclei (AGN): gigantic black holes that can emit as much energy as 10 billion suns.
Big stars with low metal content don't shed as much of their mass over time, so when one of them dies, almost all of its mass will wind up in the black hole.
It comes from the spinning space - time around the black hole and in fact it is not very well known, but that energy is there for the taking — up to 29 percent of the so - called rest mass energy of a spinning black hole is extractable — an d original conjecture, which is not, as I say [said], yet established fact, but certainly taken much more seriously than it was at that time — 10 or 15 percent of the rest mass energy of the black hole, about half of the spin energy, is in practice according to our conjecture, is in fact, the power source for these relativistically moving jets.
Because black holes can not be observed directly, Schulze's team instead measured emissions from oxygen ions [O III] around the black hole and accretion disk to determine the radiative efficiency; i.e. how much energy matter releases as it falls into the black hole.
When it comes time for one to end it all in a supernova, there isn't as much matter left to collapse in on itself, resulting in a lower - mass black hole.
Scientists identified the chirp source as objects much less massive than the black holes seen to date.
Using a similar technique, but out of a different sample, NGC 1277 was identified as unique in that it has a central black hole that is much more massive than it should be for a galaxy of that size.
Just a billion years after the big bang, supermassive black holes as much as 10 billion times the mass of the sun were making their presence felt in the universe.
As a star much more massive than the sun contracts to the size of an asteroid — or even smaller if it becomes a black hole — it creates unimaginable densities, temperatures, and energy.
Physicists have calculated that when two neutron stars collide and merge to form a rotating black hole, they should release as much as 5 × 1046 joules of energy.
The lost difference, about three Suns» worth, was dispersed as gravitational radiation — much of it during what physicists call the «ringdown» phase, when the merged black hole was settling into a spherical shape.
In the absence of a black hole, the stars would move at a much slower rate, as shown in the animation.
Astrophysicists think we'll be able to detect collisions of supermassive black holes — theoretically each containing as much as billions of times the amount of matter as our sun — within just the next ten years.
One of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe, black holes are the subject as much debate as they are fascination for science...
Done and her colleagues used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study the distant supermassive black hole, which contains as much mass as 10 million suns.
The black hole surrounded by the small galactic remnant is currently speeding away from the core of the much larger galaxy, and will continue to lose more mass as it does so.
But astronomers also know that much larger, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of large galaxies including the Milky Way, where Sagittarius A * weighs as much as 4 million suns.
Webb will investigate our strangely calm central black hole, providing a more accurate measurement of its mass, as well as how much material is falling into it, and when.
As this matter was sucked into the black hole in the researchers» simulation, it accelerated and released enough X-ray radiation to heat gas as much as a hundred light years away to several thousand degreeAs this matter was sucked into the black hole in the researchers» simulation, it accelerated and released enough X-ray radiation to heat gas as much as a hundred light years away to several thousand degreeas much as a hundred light years away to several thousand degreeas a hundred light years away to several thousand degrees.
This will allow Advanced LIGO to look at the last minutes of life of pairs of massive black holes as they spiral closer, coalesce into one larger black hole, and then vibrate — much like two soap bubbles — to become one.
The seven stars are the remains of what likely was once a much larger and massive cluster of many stars, possibly a globular cluster where a middleweight black hole could develop through runaway star collisions, as indicated by other research.
In ordinary galaxies the black hole would grow at the same rate as the galaxy, but in SAGE0536AGN the black hole has grown much faster, or the galaxy stopped growing prematurely.
Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)
The only thing I'm going to give her is that she's better than Lady Ga Ga and her even more forced personality, and that as much as I find her personality to be a vapid black hole, she did write one song for Kelly Clarkson that wasn't bad.
The Black Hole — Watched this a lot as a kid, but didn't really remember much.
After the humans have become superhumans, the story doesn't do much except contriving a way for the four heroes to fight as a team against evil megalomaniac Doom, whose modest goal is to suck our planet into a black hole.
In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.
The government should instead be taking a chainsaw to public spending, much of which, as multiple reports from the Comptroller and Auditor General show, disappears into a black hole.
There's good reason why arcades have all but died out; console and PC games started gradually catching up in technological capability with what was available in cabinets to the point where gamers would rather stay at home and play for free, any time of day, as much as they wanted, than make a trip to throw their money down a black hole.
Jonathan Jones: Nationalism is a cultural black hole — it is so much better to be both Scottish and British, as Scotland's vibrant art scene proves
As we finally are getting some much - needed rain I keep thinking about things, besides the social and political black holes, that are ripe for clean up.
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