Sentences with phrase «at early universe»

The discovery of this ultraluminous quasar also presents a major puzzle to the theory of black hole growth at early universe, according to Xiaohui Fan, Regents» Professor of Astronomy at the UA's Steward Observatory, who co-authored the study.

Astronomers peering at the early universe have glimpsed the most distant quasar yet.

The Webb telescope is specifically designed to observe the objects in that area of the spectrum, which makes it ideal for looking at the early universe.

Not exact matches

Regarding the shape of the earth, The Encyclopedia Americana says: «The earliest known image that men had of the earth was that it was a flat, rigid platform at the center of the universe....

«Even scientifically, atheism just seems to strike an early blow to anything fantasic at all about the universe.»

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneAt first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat the whim of the gardener.

This latest evidence for «inflation» supports the expansion of space in the early universe at a rate much faster than the speed of light.

However, adding even this small amount of weight at the beginning of the universe would have resulted in its collapse early in its history.

And then he concludes:» [A] s knowledge of our universe matures, that ancient awestruck feeling of wonder at its size and duration seems inappropriate, a sensibility left over from an earlier age.»

«The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,» said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.»

The important implication of this distinction of primary from secondary qualities (itself rooted in the mind / matter dualism which we looked at earlier) is that it provides the cosmological basis for a denial that there is any intrinsic meaning in the universe independent of meaning - creating individuals.

By your math Man has existed for at least the last 4.9999 billion years since he was created so early in the universes history.

There is evidence for Big Bang cosmology which explains the rapid expansion at the beginning of the early universe.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

George has a PhD in astrophysics and worked at the University of Cambridge researching the effects of black holes in galaxies and quasars in the early universe.

Sightings since 2006 have shown that gargantuan monsters with masses of at least a billion suns were already in place when the universe was less than a billion years old — far too early for them to have formed by conventional means.

It is entirely possible that both the DCBH scenario and small seeds feeding at super-Eddington rates both occurred in the early universe.

Decades earlier, cosmologists looking at Einstein's equations determined three possible destinies lying in wait for the universe, depending on how much stuff — galaxies, stars, humans — it contained.

«But it's been hypothesized that there could be black holes that formed in the very early universe before stars existed at all.

In the early universe, all of these states would have moved at close to the speed of light.

«But at high temperatures it happened all the time in the early universe.»

Lemonick provides a behind - the - scenes look at an eight - year quest by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team to produce the first all - sky map of the early universe.

The reionization of hydrogen in the universe didn't occur like the flipping on of a light switch; it wasn't instantaneous and probably didn't happen at the same rate across the cosmos, said Anna Frebel, an assistant professor of physics at MIT who studies stars and galaxies that formed in the very early days of the universe.

Astronomers had long debated whether globular clusters were massive enough for black holes to form, either when the clusters condensed in the early universe or when gas and stars accumulated at their cores.

New data on the early cosmos are providing the strongest evidence yet that our universe underwent an enormous growth spurt shortly after the big bang, according to findings announced yesterday at the American Physical Society meetings in Washington, D.C..

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.

«That we detected galaxies as faint as we did supports the idea that a lot of little galaxies reionized the early universe and that these galaxies may have played a bigger role in reionization than we thought,» says Rachael Livermore, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.

At the same time, the heavy neutrinos — theorized to have existed at the high energies present in the young universe — could have given the infant cosmos its early preference for matteAt the same time, the heavy neutrinos — theorized to have existed at the high energies present in the young universe — could have given the infant cosmos its early preference for matteat the high energies present in the young universe — could have given the infant cosmos its early preference for matter.

Cosmologists probe the early universe by looking at distant objects.

Ma's team says a more likely scenario is that the process of inflation, credited with smoothing out the distribution of matter and light in the early universe and causing the two components to move at the same rate, did not quite finish the job.

It is thought to be the first look at a previously unseen period of the universe — between the release of the microwave background and the formation of the earliest known galaxies, about a billion years later.

If confirmed, the detection would have suggested that the very early universe underwent a massively fast expansion, known as inflation, and perhaps even hinted at the existence of a multiverse.

The deep 3 - D map also revealed young galaxies that existed as early as 12.5 billion years ago (at less than 10 percent of the current universe age), only a handful of which had previously been found.

They employed a broad spectrum of methods and other measurement data, including Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations, which are density waves from the early universe, local measurements of the Hubble constant, which specifies the universe's rate of expansion at the present day, as well as a certain group of supernovae or exploding stars.

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Many astronomers believe that black holes at the hearts of galaxies grew into hulking monsters as galaxies coalesced around them in the early universe.

«What our observations of galaxies in the early universe tells us is these very early young galaxies at the dawn of the universe and their growing baby black holes already had some deep fundamental connection between them,» Schawinski said.

«That's a big problem for the theoretical models of dark energy which predicted a considerably higher amount of energy for the early universe,» adds Dr. Matteo Martinelli, postdoc at the ITP.

«That's exciting,» says Linda Elkins - Tanton, a planetary geologist at the Carnegie Institution, «because it means there's a much larger chance that any planet in the universe could have oceans early on.»

Indeed, high - energy collisions such as those at the LHC have already taken place — for example, in the early universe and even now, when sufficiently high energy cosmic rays hit our atmosphere.

The decreasing number of galaxies as time progresses also contributes to the solution for Olbers» paradox (first formulated in the early 1800s by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers): Why is the sky dark at night if the universe contains an infinity of stars?

By applying the new analysis to observations of the early universe, we might be able to settle that question at last.

In August, researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University ran a supercomputer simulation of the early universe and provided a tantalizing glimpse into the lives of the first black holes.

The vibration of strings in that early era should have created ripples in gravity, or gravitational waves, that resonated across the universe at the speed of light.

«If we assume this is the case, that LIGO caught a merger of black holes formed in the early universe, we can look at the consequences this has on our understanding of how the cosmos ultimately evolved.»

An interdisciplinary team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Amsterdam's GRAPPA Center of Excellence for Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics has devised a new strategy to search for «primordial» black holes produced in the early universe.

Aiichi Iwazaki at Nishogakusha University in Tokyo says that because the early universe was smaller and offered more chances for axions to attract each other, they would have clumped together to form axion «stars».

To verify this rugby - scrimmage view of the early universe, astronomers need to see even younger, tinier proto - galaxies, at about 90 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.

As for the very early universe, instruments like Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope allow astronomers to find similar objects at varying distances and at different points in their life span.

Astronomers see its effects throughout the cosmos — in the rotation of galaxies, in the distortion of light passing through galaxy clusters, and in simulations of the early universe, which require the presence of dark matter to form galaxies at all.

It also keeps cropping up in all sorts of experiments aimed at modelling the early universe.