Sentences with phrase «along near the speed of light»

And those early anti-atoms, produced at CERN and at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the U.S., were «hot,» zipping along near the speed of light.

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To mimic the conditions of the early universe, researchers sent electrically charged gold atoms racing along the collider's 2.4 - mile - long tunnel at near light speed, producing a fireball 150,000 times as hot as the center of the sun.

A gamma ray burst is thought to emerge when jets of hot matter moving at near — light - speed shoot out along the rotational axis of the newborn black hole, beaming radiation into space like a lighthouse.

Marscher says the researchers detected BL Lac's twisted magnetic fields by analyzing a «flare» of visible light, x-rays, and gamma rays from an explosion they watched shoot along the jet's path at near - light speed.

Hardly interacting with other matter, neutrinos come in the three different types — electron, muon, and tau — and the winners of this year's prize showed that the three types can morph into one another as the particles zip along at near - light speed.

This ultra-powerful field becomes better organized and forms two outwardly directed funnels along the new black hole's rotational axis, which then creates the two bi-polar jets of particles moving near the speed of light that are detected as a short GRB (NASA news release; Seil Collins, New Scientist, April 13, 2011; and Rezzolla et al, 2011; and more discussion and images from Bruno Giacomazzo's presentation).

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