Sentences with phrase «death of a massive star»

Now a new theory holds that cosmic rays are born in the shock waves following the explosive deaths of massive stars.

A supernova — the violent death of a massive star — had erupted in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, only 160,000 light - years away.

The explosive death of a massive star whose energy output causes its expanding gases to glow brightly for weeks or months.

Core - collapse supernovae are spectacular explosions that mark the violent deaths of massive stars.

The Hubble Space Telescope has allowed us to watch the explosive death of massive stars, study the remnants they left behind, and witness newborn stars arising from clouds of gas and dust.

Presumably black holes should be there as well, either born on the galactic center's doorstep from the deaths of massive stars or arriving via migration from farther out.

The longer flashes, lasting at least a few seconds, have long been thought to signal the deaths of massive stars that have run out of fuel, causing them to collapse to form black holes, unleashing powerful jets of radiation in the process.

• What do we know about the nature of the death of massive stars — signaled by Type II supernovae — that fashion crucial elements such as calcium and oxygen?

In particular, Wetzel and his collaborators worked on carefully modeling the complex physics of stellar evolution, including how supernovae — the fantastic explosions that punctuate the death of massive stars — affect their host galaxy.

Gamma rays usually follow the death of a massive star but these bursts were 88,000 light - years from the nearest galaxy.

Some theorists believe any black holes formed there — through the deaths of massive stars — would tend to be thrown out of the clusters after gravitational interactions with other stars.

So why didn't the death of the massive star produce a black hole?

The intense radiation was part of a gamma - ray burst that lasted a minute and which marked the death of a massive star transmogrifying itself into a black hole.

O'Shaughnessy and his team link the black hole's misalignment to when it formed from the death of a massive star.

The death of massive stars is reasonably well known — most blow their innards across galaxies in titanic explosions called supernovae — but their birth is another story.

The deaths of massive stars may therefore lead to the birth of a new generation.»

«We wanted to understand the death of the massive stars in the early universe — the supernovae — and how their explosions later affected star formation in the universe,» Chen said.

The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that astronomers say is one of the most distant ever discovered.

Signifying the death of massive stars, gamma - ray bursts are some of the universe's most powerful explosions.

In this artist's rendering, jets of high - energy radiation shoot out from a Gamma - ray burst, signaling the death of a massive star.

A black hole can be formed by the death of a massive star.

The idea behind the death of a massive star is relatively straightforward: It gets old, runs out of fuel, collapses under gravity and then explodes as a supernova.

(Inside Science)-- When the astronomers first saw the supernova in 2014, it looked like a standard explosion that often signifies the death of a massive star.