Sentences with phrase «accreting surrounding»
Kuiper Belt Objects appear to be primitive bodies that are remnants of the early stages of solar system formation, when the giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) were accreting surrounding gas, dust, and ices.
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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.
The two dense peaks will continue to accrete from the surrounding cold gas reservoir over a period of ~ 105 years and will likely form a binary star system.
So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.
Bañados was looking in particular for quasars — some of the brightest objects in the universe, that consist of a supermassive black hole surrounded by swirling, accreting disks of matter.
It is about 10 million years old, and is still accreting gas from a surrounding disk of material.
The gas giants were formed by accreting gas from the protoplanetary disc that surrounded the sun.
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.
He was among the first to show that young stars with ages of only 1 million years accrete material from surrounding disks of gas and dust.
Black holes form in the young Universe and, over the next 13 billion years or so, accrete enormous amounts of matter from the surrounding galaxy.