Sentences with phrase «dense remnants»

Neutron stars are the incredibly dense remnants left behind after supernova explosions.

Neutron stars are dense remnants of stars gone supernova, packing the mass of the sun into a sphere the size of a city.

Two common models for gamma - ray emission from FRBs exist: one invoking magnetic flare events from magnetars — highly magnetized neutron stars that are the dense remnants of collapsed stars — and another invoking the catastrophic merger of two neutron stars, colliding to form a black hole.

Current theory also suggests that if the doomed star holds less than 20 times the sun's mass, its explosive death should produce a small but extremely dense remnant called a neutron star.

This animation shows the explosion of a white dwarf, an extremely dense remnant of a star that can no longer burn nuclear fuel at its core.

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And while a classic crusty baguette has its time and place (say, to sop up the delightful remnants of moules frites or seafood cioppino), my usual preference is for the dense and hardy, graced with nuts or whole grains.

Einstein said it couldn't be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light to directly measure the mass of a dense stellar remnant

One middle - aged star, known as HD 69830, appears to be surrounded by an asteroid belt that is 25 times as dense as the one in our solar system, possibly the remnants of a rocky planet that never formed.

The first image from Chandra has revealed a bright source of X-rays — possibly a dense neutron star — at the centre of Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant.

Each of the four rings, says Heinz, indicates a dense cloud of dust between us and the supernova remnant.

Astronomers have discovered the densest extrasolar planet yet: A Jupiter - mass remnant of a carbon - and oxygen - rich star that measures no more than 55,000 kilometers across.

Neutron stars are the remnants of bigger stars that collapsed under their own weight, becoming so dense that they pushed their constituent electrons and protons to fuse into neutrons.

Pulsars, the dense spinning remnants of exploded stars, contain about the same mass as the sun crushed into a wad of neutrons less than 10 miles wide.

As a result, the trajectory of light bends as it whizzes past the universe's densest, most massive objects, including black holes and neutron stars, the remnant cores of dead stars

According to the researchers, there are two possible scenarios in which such a cloud could have been created — the first one that involves the expanding gas shell of the supernova remnant passing by a static black hole, and the other wherein a fast - moving black hole plunges through a cloud of dense gas that is then dragged along by the former's strong gravity.

Bose, who authored a paper in May on how the emissions from the remnant of neutron star mergers can provide a window onto the densest state of matter, contributed to the analysis of the merger energetics.

This is the brightest pulsar — a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion — ever recorded.

Treated to dense, Mos Eisley inspired cities alongside the remnants of grand Jedi monuments, the audience is reintroduced to a time when the Force lived on through faith, if not in practice.