Sentences with phrase «accreted into»

As Jupiter accreted into a giant planet, its gravitational pull began to disturb the orbits of the nearest planetesimals so that collisions became more violent.

Over the course of about 100 million years, most of the material in that nebulous cloud accreted into the existing eight planets — four rocky (including Earth) and four gaseous.

As mass is accreted into one of the disks it loses gravitational energy.

The «ice line» in any solar system, including TRAPPIST - 1's, is the distance from the star beyond which water exists as ice and can be accreted into a planet; inside the ice line water exists as vapor and will not be accreted.

Structuring, upfront and similar fees are recorded as a discount on investments purchased and are accreted into interest income, on a straight line basis, which we have determined not to be materially different from the effective yield method.

Those rings could accrete into new moons and eventually go through the whole process again.

On January 15, 2010, a team of astronomers released the results of computer simulations indicating that kilometer - size planetesimals can form and accrete into rocky Earth - size planets around Alpha Centauri B despite gravitational perturbations from Alpha Centauri A.

Not exact matches

«Money being reinvested into a business is, by definition, not immediately accreting to shareholders, which we think may be a problem given high consensus earnings growth expectations,» says Castagno, adding that the companies most at risk, based on elevated expectations and likelihood of reinvestment, are those in Consumer Staples, Financials, Health Care, and Industrials.

Material is pulled from surrounding filaments and accreted onto cores dotted along the cloud structure, converting gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy in the process.

The disc grows to a point where the supermassive black hole can no longer accrete or «digest» efficiently and matter is blasted out into the surrounding interstellar medium.

Pasham says tidal disruption flares are a potential window into the universe's many «hidden» black holes, which are not actively accreting, or feeding on material.

The Russians held off drilling into the accreted ice for seven years, while they went through the long process of preparing a comprehensive environmental evaluation detailing their drilling plans and inviting comment, as required by the Antarctic Treaty, an environmental - protection agreement signed by nations with a presence in the Antarctic.

The jets are thought to be produced by the ejection of material that is first pulled and acquired, or «accreted,» from one object to the other and swirled into a so - called accretion disk.

«We think that there is a dormant black hole there that has accreted a lump of matter — probably a star that has fallen into it,» says astrophysicist Neil Gehrels, the lead scientist for SWIFT at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Even then, it's more likely that any future beings will absorb light from accreting matter rather than dwell under a cold sun, as by then the CMB will have faded into nothing.

Those furious feeding rates still seem to defy the black holes» supermassive size: A 100 - solar - mass black hole accreting at the limit should take about 800 million years to reach a billion solar masses, even taking into account that it would eat faster as it grew.

Infalling material smashes into the star, creating a shock wave and heating the accreting gas to temperatures greater than 5 million degrees Fahrenheit.

To nudge it out of its supersaturated state, all you need to do is put a seed crystal into the solution; the dissolved substance accretes around it, creating — if you're lucky — a nice, large crystal.

Walter's recent research has focused on the period early in Earth's history, shortly after the planet accreted from the cloud of gas and dust surrounding our young Sun, when the mantle and the core first separated into distinct layers.

Orbiting particles should spiral into their star or be scattered or expelled from their orbit — not merge (accrete) to become a planet.a Experiments have shown that colliding particles, instead of sticking together, almost always fragment.b (Similar difficulties exist in trying to form a moon from particles orbiting a planet.)

Response: Despite the small land area of the plant, SMR - 160 will accrete a small fraction of the dose of a large contemporary reactor at its site boundary because of the many dose mitigation features built into its design, viz:

Our current understanding tells us that for a supermassive black hole to turn into a massive quasar, it would need to accrete matter for at least 100 million years.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

Both sculptures are composed of nested shapes accreted from drawings and scaled up into curvy, rounded, abstract forms with peculiar budges and indentations.