Sentences with phrase «accelerate subatomic particles»
These machines accelerate subatomic particles, such as protons, to velocities exceedingly close to the speed of light.
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What's filling the tunnel is the beam pipe: the hardware used to accelerate subatomic particles (protons, mostly) to 99.999999 percent of the speed of light.
These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.
The new VLA observations revealed previously undetected regions where shocks accelerated subatomic particles, causing radio emission.
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This video shows how the contraption accelerates and slams together subatomic particles, and what comes out of the collision.
The lasers generate plasmas that shed light on cosmic bursts of subatomic particles that give rise to solar eruptions and solar flares and accelerate cosmic rays to near the speed of light.
Microquasars In far - distant quasars and active galaxies, millions or even billions of light - years away, the gravitational and magnetic energy of supermassive black holes is capable of accelerating «jets» of subatomic particles to speeds approaching that of light.