Sentences with phrase «by strong gravitational»

They pinpointed the locations of large, dense regions called mass concentrations, or mascons, which are characterized by strong gravitational pull.

However the effect is subtle, and the shape of a void is also affected by the motions of galaxies caused by strong gravitational interactions.

The other star is an expanding red giant, with a bloated outer shell of hydrogen that gets whisked away by the strong gravitational pull of its partner.

Not exact matches

Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

The resulting theory, though founded on quite different principles and developed in an independent fashion from Einstein's theory, nevertheless gives predictions that are identical to the latter's, within observable limits, for each of the four classic tests of gravitational theories (i.e., precession of the perihelion of Mercury, redshift of light emitted by a massive body, the bending of light - beams in a strong gravitational field, and the apparent slowing of the speed of light propagation near massive bodies).

By studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alonBy studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alonby theorists alone.

Strong gravitational lenses built by massive clusters are powerful tools.

While those gravitational waves are strong, they lie outside the wavelengths currently observable by ongoing experiments such as LIGO and Virgo.

The region of space around an object where a satellite could orbit indefinitely is called the Hill sphere, roughly defined as where the object's gravitational field is stronger than that exerted by another object outside the sphere.

A sun - size star approaching within 30 solar radii of the monster, they calculate, would be ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational pull, which would be far stronger on the near side of the star than on the far side.

Despite having a low profile, the mountains would be large enough to produce strong gravitational waves as they are carried around by the star's rotation.

The three concluded that there was a strong possibility that the signal could have been generated by cosmic dust in the galactic foreground rather than by gravitational waves.

«AutoLens has demonstrated its capabilities with this stunning image of a strong gravitational lens system captured by the Hubble Space Telescope,» said Nightingale, who developed AutoLens together with his colleague, Dr Simon Dye.

The strong gravitational waves from such collisions might be detectable by a proposed NASA mission.

Formed by the collapse of massive stars, they exert a gravitational force so strong it traps light as well as matter.

What's more, the close, roughly circular orbits of Phobos and Deimos are inconsistent with the idea that they were once asteroids that were strong - armed into joining the Martian family by the Red Planet's gravitational clout.

The black holes that power quasars probably started their lives in miniature and grew exponentially by accretion — whereby matter close to a black hole can not escape the strong gravitational field and is ultimately pulled into the black hole.

As gaseous matter is attracted towards the event horizon by the black hole's gravitational attraction, strong radio emission is produced before the gas disappears.

However, these tests do not constrain how well the very strong gravitational fields produced by merging neutron stars obey this theory.

These cosmic lenses are created by massive structures like galaxies and galaxy clusters, which deflect the light from objects behind them due to their strong gravity — an effect, called gravitational lensing.

In this talk, UCLA astronomer Tommaso Treu briefly reviews the history of the discovery of dark matter and dark energy and describes how we can gain new insights by studying the trajectories of photons as they travel across the universe, a phenomenon known as strong gravitational lensing.

Around 30 Indians were part of a 1,000 - strong team of researchers from 15 countries led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that made the discovery using detectors at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, or LIGO.

Indeed, sometime after the tenuous gas of the Solar nebula began collapsing into the proto - Sun within its host molecular cloud, a strong magnetic field developed that was instrumental in transporting rotational energy away from its core region in bi-polar jets of gas so that centrifugal forces created by the nebula's collapse did not grow so much as to halt continuing gravitational contraction.

There were vast and silent forces swirling around me: strong water currents created by distant winds and large waves, the gravitational pull of moon and sun, and the rapid spinning of the earth.

There are gravity waves in the atmosphere produced by solar heating and the gravitaional effects of both moon and sun, but because the diurnal heating effect is so strong, and the surface of the earth is so uneven, the gravitational effects are difficult to identify.

A stronger gravitational field will produce a lower, denser, warmer surface than a weaker gravitational field since the amount of solar energy retained by the atmosphere will be focused into a smaller volume and that amount of energy will be determined by the amount of mass available to absorb it at any given level of solar irradiation.