Sentences with phrase «about black holes after»
New Scientist broke the news on 14 July that Hawking, at the University of Cambridge, had changed his mind about black holes after solving a long - standing paradox in physics.
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That would be big enough to see gravitational waves emitted by any merging supermassive black holes that may have existed around the time when the universe's first stars began to shine, about a hundred million years after the big bang.
«This chicken - and - egg problem of what was there first, the galaxy or the black hole, has been pushed all the way to the edge of the universe,» Yale University astrophysicist Kevin Schawinski said in a June 15 press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Schawinski was part of a team of researchers that used two renowned orbiting observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, to identify a population of black holes in galaxies at redshift 6, which corresponds to a time about 950 million years after the big bang.
About 400 million years after the Big Bang, the universe still consisted of scattered stars and small, starving black holes.
After all, we are talking about all the stars as well as planets, comets, moons, the Crab nebula, black holes, brown dwarfs, the Pacific Ocean, you, me, cans of soup, and the family dog — all of it.
Researchers report that this is the most distant giant black hole ever detected, and at this distance, our Universe was only about 5 % of its current age, or about 690 million years after the Big Bang.
As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»
«It's hard to describe; after years of dreaming about this, writing all these papers saying, «Maybe we could even see two big black holes collide, it would be phenomenal!»
Using data from the image, researchers found that these black holes grew in bursts, rather than by slowly accumulating matter, about one to two billion years after the Big Bang.
My grandparents» house, where I spend most holidays, is like a black hole — in a good way: Whenever I'm there, I spend most of my time sleeping, eating, and lazing about, pleasantly sedated by the combination of the blazing fireplace, the comfy blankets that Grandma knits and leaves on all of the furniture, and the inevitable food coma that results after one of our afternoon Pennsylvania Dutch feasts.