Sentences with phrase «dying stars blow»

Wang believes he has spotted the aftermath of hypernovas, theoretical events in which dying stars blow off their outer layers and collapse into black holes.

Not exact matches

The star can blow off steam several times, the idea goes, before finally dying in a supernova.

In the mysterious, glowing clouds created by the collision of violently blowing gases, you can read the record of a star's dying days.

Writing in the Sept. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Burrows — along with first author Jason Nordhaus, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton, and Ann Almgren and John Bell from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — reports that the Princeton team has developed simulations that are beginning to match the massive blow - outs astronomers have witnessed when gigantic stars die.

Still, the real space light had been crawling across the intervening distance for all these centuries, and by its relativistic standard it was only now that those stars blew up, and just at this moment that those billions died, as the outrushing shell of light swept over and through the Masaq» system.