Sentences with phrase «by luminous matter»

Using this method, astronomers have confirmed that galactic clusters indeed have high masses exceeding those measured by luminous matter and, as a result, have provided additional evidence of dark matter.

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I am simply saying, without leaving the physical field, that the greatest discovery made in this century is probably the realisation that the passage of Time may best be measured by the gradual gathering of Matter in superposed groups, of which the arrangement, ever richer and more centralized, radiates outwards from an ever more luminous fringe of liberty and interiority.

ETA CARINAE The most luminous star in our galaxy is dimmed by obscuring matter and by its great distance — 7,000 light - years away.

The Milky Way is likewise escorted by at least a half dozen small galaxies trapped by the gravitational epoxy of dark matter, which is scattered all through and around our galaxy's luminous stars.

Quasars constitute a brief phase in the galactic life - cycle, during which they shine as the most luminous objects in the Universe, powered by the infall of matter onto a supermassive black hole.

Some are found in globular clusters, but most move in a huge cloud around the disk called the galactic halo, which has a luminous inner component defined by globular star clusters and other easily observable stars (with coronae of hot gas possibly expelled by supernovae and of high - velocity neutron stars) and an outer dark - matter component inferred from its gravitational impact on the Milky Way's spiral disk.

Often surrounded by luminous tropical hues, tigers, monkeys and bats can seem either benign or sinister, reticent or theatrical, and adopt an anthropomorphic quality that discloses a sense of the artist's compassion for her subject matter.