Sentences with phrase «by a black hole of»

Powered by a black hole of 2 billion solar masses, the quasar appears as it did 12.9 billion years ago, when the universe as humans know it was just beginning to emerge from the Big Bang.

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Working in concert with LIGO's two detectors, Virgo should help give astronomers an even better understanding of black hole behavior and, by extension, the inner workings of the universe.

These gravitational waves were generated by two black holes — eight and 14 times the mass of the sun — merging together 1.4 billion light years away from Earth.

Seeking a modification has been an infuriating, stressful nightmare: a black hole of time lost repeatedly calling an 800 number, faxing and mailing the same documents over and over, and coping with the ramifications of errors made by poorly trained bank employees.

A convinced Platonist, at least with regard to the existence of mathematical laws, Davies rejects the cultural view of mathematics merely as a language created by man to describe the natural world; and like his colleague Roger Penrose (one of the foremost theoreticians on black holes) he flatly asserts that mathematical laws have an existence of their own:

Imagine «loving» people, for example, who belong to Satan, the Black Hole of evil, by their own volition.

Please don't be watching peoples comments on this site so you can categorise and pigeon - hole us into your groups, that will lead to the cessation of free speech here — not all of us know everything, we are often learning by the process of conversation and don't have lots of black and white answers figured out.

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

Once the impossibility of reason has been granted, the black hole that is formed by that concession soon pulls revelation in after it.

The scientific method is not used by most of science, otherwise there would be no big bang theory or evolution as a means to species in science, no black holes either.

John P. Tarver said: «The scientific method is not used by most of science, otherwise there would be no big bang theory or evolution as a means to species in science, no black holes either.

I was off on the max size of the largest black hole by just a wee bit:) the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 1277 from space.com

These observations help clarify the origin of the powerful jet of gas streaming from the galaxy's center at a high fraction of the speed of light: it is likely driven by the swirling matter near the black hole's boundary.»

The appearance of particles radiating from the black hole is the result of particle - antiparticle pairs formed by vacuum fluctution just outside the vent horizon.

A quasar is powered by an enormous black hole that steadily consumes a surrounding disk of gas and dust.

Although astronomers had accumulated compelling evidence for black holes by observing their surroundings, the LIGO signal is the first real direct proof of their existence.

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He hardly played last season in favor of Danny Santana (one of the worst ML players the Braves have had in years) and this season in favor of Peter Bourjos, who was brought in as a last minute stopgap measure to fill the void / need for a black hole left by Santana.

Pictured below is a black child safety gate that was installed by a Baby Safe Homes safety professional in Temecula, California and was placed at the top of the stairs using a no holes banister clamps, to prevent damage to the stair posts.

I feel like this week just flew by — maybe it's the five hours of The Bachelor I consumed between Monday and Tuesday (I swear that show is a black hole for productivity) or maybe it was running around to get ready for our trip this weekend.

Instead of tackling the deficit, there's actually a # 11.6 billion black hole in the Lib Dems» numbers which means that instead of reducing borrowing they would actually increase it by # 900 million.

There is a financial black hole of half a billion pounds in the country's police forces, according to figures seen by Labour.

A rising black hole of state - owned enterprise (SOE) debt, which together with the debts owed by government to the bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) and the lack of adequate supervision of microfinance companies can potentially collapse the banking system.

• Cable dismissed claims in the Financial Times (subscription) that there is a # 12bn «black hole» in the government's accounts threatening the coalition's hopes of getting rid of the deficit by 2015.

Now the Institute of Fiscal Studies has brought that omission into sharp relief, calculating the black holes in the parties» spending plans that will have to filled by a combination of tax rises and spending cuts.

Labour have accused the Treasury of failing to fully tackle tax avoidance as it claimed to have identified a # 2.6 bn black hole created by downgraded revenue forecasts.

Chris Huhne, at Energy and Climate Change, has started to lobby for special treatment by announcing the discovery of a # 4bn black hole in his budget for the cost of decommissioning nuclear power stations.

Stephen Hawking, a black hole whisperer who divined the secrets of the universe's most inscrutable objects, left a legacy of cosmological puzzles sparked by his work, and inspired a generation of scientists who grew up reading his books.

A supermassive one lurks at the heart of every galaxy — and yet still no one can work out what happens when matter is swallowed by a black hole

It was not until the detection of quasars, which allow astronomers to see the light emitted by matter falling into black holes, that we had evidence that they were real objects and not just mathematical curiosities predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Subtle cosmic vibrations kicked up by swirling black holes have captured the public imagination — and the minds of the physics Nobel Prize committee members, too.

Black hole coalescences aren't expected to generate light that could be spotted by telescopes, but another prime candidate could: a smashup between two remnants of stars known as neutron stars.

Using 12 years of archival data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a team led by Columbia University astrophysicist Chuck Hailey has found a dozen potential black holes within a few light - years of the Milky Way's center, well within the gravitational reach of our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

In preparation for this search, physicists honed their general relativity skills on simulations of the spacetime storm kicked up by black holes, predicting what LIGO might see and building up the computational machinery to solve the equations of general relativity.

Morris calls the work «exciting» but notes that due to the very low total numbers of photons used in the analysis, of the dozen putative black holes some might actually merely be statistical flukes produced by coincidentally timed emissions from other sources.

The fact there must then be tens of thousands of black holes at the galactic center stems from the notion these objects would only very rarely be accompanied by a star to make them glow — most would remain isolated, invisible singletons.

But a feeding black hole is surrounded by a whirling, white - hot disk of glowing debris — material heated to millions of degrees as it spirals down to oblivion.

But if you have clusters of black holes at the centers of galaxies, there are mechanisms by which some could rapidly grow, form binaries and merge with each other.»

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

In general, the stars in a galaxy outweigh the central black holes by about a factor of 1,000.

Gravity's Engines by Caleb Scharf In the late 18th century, black holes were simply an audacious thought experiment; today we know that the universe is strewn with billions, perhaps even trillions, of these time - bending objects.

But almost all of that light is being produced by the galaxy's central supermassive black hole — not by its stars.

The spiral shape is commonplace, with a massive black hole at the centre, surrounded by a bulge of old stars, and arms winding outwards where relatively young stars like the Sun are found.

Sometimes thought leads nowhere, as in considerations of what happens to information absorbed by a black hole.

Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.

Microlensing by a 30 - solar - mass black hole should generate a rapid echo of a burst, making the black hole easier to detect.

For a fourth time, physicists have spotted gravitational waves — ripples in space itself — set off by the merger of two massive black holes.

In 2004 Stephen Hawking conceded a bet in the face of «proof» that information is not destroyed by the black hole.

The latest studies by Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany show that the black hole's potent gravity has warped G2 into a long, snaking blob, with the leading part already coiled all the way around Sagittarius A *.

Heavy black holes might also betray their presence by occasionally passing in front of more distant stars.