Sentences with word «astrophysicist»

A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their theoretical work.

A passion for space exploration is the fuel to an innovative economy, says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

A group of astrophysicists at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, Irvine, and Florida Atlantic University simulated the gravitational infall of Sagittarius over the past few billion years to uncover what effects the dwarf galaxy may have had on the Milky Way.

New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a supermassive black hole.

How much thought does it require to recognize that the universe with its estimated 400 billion galaxies (Ethan Siegel, theoretical astrophysicist who specializes in cosmology said that he «wouldn't be surprised to find that there are maybe even close to a trillion galaxies in the observable universe.»

«This is the first pioneering experiment that shows that this can be done,» says Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the work.

A passion for exploration is the fuel to an innovative economy, says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

A team of international researchers, led by astrophysicists from the University of Exeter, Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, used state - of - the - art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a «hot Jupiter» found 150 lightyears from Earth.

And indeed, David Spergel, a Princeton University astrophysicist who did not contribute to the study, explains that black hole accretion and starbursts can be related.

The theoreticians» task was to isolate information about this dynamic from the data obtained, and learn how to decipher the spectra, just as astrophysicists use the Doppler shift in a star's spectrum to measure its speed.

X literally may mark the spot for astrophysicists hunting for colliding black holes.

April 2, 2018 • Commentator Adam Frank talks with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb about exo - civilizations, techno - signatures, and the search for alien life — living or long - gone.

At a recent meeting of astrophysicists in Aspen, Colorado, researchers described some strange new orbs:

«I don't think we know where this radiation is coming from,» said Princeton astrophysicist David N. Spergel.

«These are the dogs that don't bark,» NASA astrophysicist David Thompson says.

«While most astrophysicists believe black holes exists, nobody has actually ever seen one», says Heino Falcke, Professor in radio astronomy at Radboud University in Nijmegen and ASTRON, The Netherlands.

A team of astrophysicists think that they have spotted such a ring thanks to an effect called microlensing, in which a star accidentally acts as a telescope.

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The existence of another kind of nonstellar black hole has been proposed by the British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

Moreover, the proposed time delay between supernova and gamma ray burst is arbitrary and based on no plausible mechanism, says Caltech astrophysicist Andrew MacFadyen.

«Nine billion years ago, dark energy was already wielding its repulsive influence on the universe,» explains Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Adam Riess.

Although different interpretations remain on the table for Geminga's geometry, Posselt said that Chandra's images of the pulsar are helping astrophysicists use pulsars as particle physics laboratories.

I managed to do this in large part because a Russian astrophysicist named Yakov Zel» dovich took me under his wing.

Huge efforts are currently underway to work out what dark matter is, so finding such a unique dark matter galaxy may help astrophysicists work out what it is really made of.

This one from astrophysicist John Gribbin on chaos theory doesn't sound like light reading, but it does sound fascinating.

The most famous British astrophysicist at the time, Hoyle was a magnet for the more ambitious students.

In order to answer this question, theoretical astrophysicists work with cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations.

He also brought along some heavy hitters to help make this case, including cosmologist Stephen Hawking, former astronaut Mae Jemison, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb and former head of the NASA Ames Research Center Pete Worden.

Ever New: Hubble Through The Years 1:30 p.m. — 2:00 p.m. (streamed on Griffith ObservatoryTV) 7:00 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. NASA astrophysicist Dr. Ken Carpenter and Northrop Grumman engineer and executive Mr. Russ Matijevich recount the challenges faced by engineers, scientists, and astronauts in their efforts to keep Hubble ever new.

Clustering of galaxies along the vast ripples was predicted more than 30 years ago, so finally seeing the structures is a triumph, says astrophysicist Martin Rees of Cambridge University, U.K. «The concordant picture we have of the universe is hanging together extremely well.»

Most of what astrophysicists know about these curious remnants, called neutron stars, is based on theory and limited observations.

A study was done on astrophysicists about how many of them believe in god.

In a presentation (see below) Harvard astrophysicist Willie Soon came out blasting with both barrels at the corruption in climate science.

As Jessie Dotson, a NASA astrophysicist on the K2 mission, said, «I'm on the edge of my seat,» to see what that analysis yields.

In 2003 Kramer and other astrophysicists discovered a very special example just 1,500 light years from Earth, because it was not one pulsar, but two: a double pulsar.

Simulations by Japanese astrophysicists suggest that shock waves (perhaps from high - energy collisions in the infant solar system) flash - heated the chondrules, which then became part of larger asteroids.

It was shot by retired NASA astrophysicist Fred Espenak, one of the world's leading authorities on total solar eclipses; he has had the incredible good fortune to have seen 27 of them so far.

Two American astrophysicists studied the color of the light emitted by 200,000 galaxies and created a cosmic spectrum, which they then averaged according to the light spectrum visible to human eyes.

Planet f initially looks more promising, but modeling the evolution of the star makes it seem probable that it has only moved into the habitable zone recently as Tau Ceti has gotten more luminous over the course of its life,» explains astrophysicist Michael Pagano, ASU postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

Zank and many other astrophysicists say the evidence is overwhelming that Voyager 1 has crossed the heliopause, but they acknowledge that they have to determine why the magnetic field direction didn't shift.

When astrophysicist Robert Petre of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues analyzed the ASCA data, they found that most of the Lupus supernova remnant had spikes in its X-ray spectrum — the radiation peaked at a few wavelengths.

Astrophysicists don't create stars in the lab, geologists don't make rocks, physicists don't create gravity, physicians don't create germs.

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking shared that he will achieve his dream of going to space by hitching a ride on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceship.