Sentences with phrase «consumed by the black hole»

Although sufficient to disintegrate the primordial star, almost all of the heavy elements such as iron, were consumed by a black hole that formed at the heart of the explosion,» he says.

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

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.

Black holes grow by consuming material that passes too close to their enormous gravity wells.

Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole.

By comparing differences in the X-ray spectra between Type I and Type II galaxies, the researchers concluded that, regardless of which way the galaxy faces Earth, the central black holes in Type I galaxies consume matter and emit energy much faster compared with the black holes at the center of Type II galaxies.

While it's known that Type 1a supernovae form from collapsing white dwarfs — the densest forms of matter after black holes and neutron stars — their formation theories come in two flavors: the single degenerate scenario in which a normal star is consumed by a white dwarf; and the double degenerate scenario in which two white dwarfs merge.