Sentences with phrase «beamed radiation into»

The merging neutron stars powered a seconds - long gamma ray burst that beamed radiation into space.

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.

Not exact matches

This technique uses powerful pulses of electromagnetic radiation beamed into a person's brain to jam or excite particular brain circuits.

And if this beam is also focused into a speck with a three millimeter diameter, then we get an intensity of light an order higher than the intensity of light close to the sun's surface, which has a radiation power of about 20 gigawatts a square meter.

Proton beam therapy has the ability to deliver high doses of radiation directly to a tumour site with very little radiation being absorbed into healthy tissue.

Material falling from the exploded star onto the compact companion would have been heated and blasted back into space in two narrow jets, along with a beam of radiation.

Focusing the machine's full output into a spot of only 100 nanometers in size, the team generated an X-ray beam with intensity equivalent to all of the sun's radiation that is striking Earth's surface but concentrated in an area with the diameter of a human hair.

They emit a narrow beam of intense radiation during a supernova when a massive star collapses into a neutron star or a black hole.

Together we designed five types of pyrheliometer including the water - flow standard; also, the two - mirror coelostat for reflecting a fixed solar beam into the laboratory; the vacuum bolometer, sensitive to a 10 - millionth of a degree of temperature, and the special galvanometer to record its indications; and finally, the pyranometer to measure radiation from an area of sky.

While humankind is theoretically capable of blasting a laser beam into space that is 10,000 times stronger than the sun, Diamond continued, «there isn't an instrument on Earth that can detect an Earth - like planet with Earth - like leakage of electromagnetic radiation.»