Sentences with phrase «emitting light waves»

Strogatz explores dozens of strange synchronous phenomena, from hands clapping in unison to the rhythmic flashing of fireflies to laser beams produced by trillions of atoms emitting light waves in phase at the same frequency.

Because the light leaking out of the waveguide is all in synch, the waveguide might be bent to form an antenna that emits light wave with sculpted phase fronts, he says.

Not exact matches

It uses pulsed light - emitting diodes (LEDs) with multiple infrared (IR) wave lengths, and combines specially - designed full red, green, blue (RGB) cameras to deliver stable detection.

When the atom drops from the higher to the lower energy state, it emits a photon, or light particle, in the form of a radio wave 21 centimeters long.

The two neutron stars converged in the galaxy NGC 4993, 130 million light - years from Earth, emitting gravitational waves in the process (SN: 11/11/17, p. 6).

At the center of the controversy are two blobs about 450 light - years apart that emit radio waves — light at the low - frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The collision emits gravitational waves and a burst of light.

The X radiation from both galaxies appears to be from 10 to 100 times stronger than the energy they emit in the form of light and radio waves.

In 1974, scientists detected a heavy dose of radio waves emitted from the center of the Milky Way, about 26,000 light - years away.

Depending on exactly how gravity behaves on such small scales, it is possible that a singularity would shine with its own light, or emit gravitational waves.

Instead of relying on light waves emitted by electrons, it would use radiation emitted when the nucleus is excited to a high energy state, and then drops into a lower energy state.

The size of the acoustic scale at 13.7996 billion years ago has been exquisitely determined from observations of the cosmic microwave background from the light emitted when the pressure waves became frozen.

In the case of Tycho's supernova remnant, astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward at Mach 1000 (1000 times the speed of sound) is heating the remnant and causing it to emit X-ray light.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Two supermassive black holes orbiting just a fraction of a light - year apart should emit such waves and then give off a burst of them when the black holes merge.

Researchers tried to pin the gamma rays on some object they already knew — something that emitted X-rays, radio waves, or visible light — but for a long time they failed.

Instead of searching for the light from individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen atoms floating in huge clouds within the galaxies.

Results and observations Laser light is emitted in the form of parallel waves that are coherent, or in phase with one another: all of the peaks and valleys line up.

The waves on top of the ridge represent the emitted light.

Pulsars reveal the magnetic field in neighboring reaches of space because they typically emit polarized light — radio waves that vibrate in a particular plane as they travel through space.

«Returning clumps of debris strike the incoming stream, which results in shock waves that emit visible and ultraviolet light,» said acting Swift principal investigator and study co-author Bradley Cenko, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The expanding universe is taking these extremely distant galaxies away from us so fast that the light waves they emit are being stretched out — or Doppler - shifted — into the infrared part of the spectrum.

Colliding black holes do not emit light; however, they do release a phenomenal amount of energy as gravitational waves.

The planet's shock wave would be pushed in front of it as it orbits at supersonic speeds, and the wave would absorb some of the UV light emitted from the star.

This was the first time electromagnetic radiation — light, gamma rays and radio waves — was detected from the same object that emitted gravitational waves.

As they heat and compress the gas, the shock waves emit light.

ALMA focuses on the region of the spectrum between radio waves and infrared light, the range of frequencies at which complex molecules emit light when they undergo various transitions.

However, for the light cage with the light waves emitted from the two atoms the analogy to the splashing children in the sea does not fully hold.

Gravity waves, emitted by black holes that collided far away and in the distant past, are now reaching Earth.29 From their beginning, they orbited their mutual center of gravity, each sending out — at the speed of light — one gravity wave per orbit.

Because the jet features are moving toward Earth at almost the same speed as the radio waves they emit, they can appear to move across the sky at faster - than - light speeds.

They focused a continuous - wave laser emitting light at 488 - nanometer wavelength — visible - wavelength light that is potentially safe for cells — through an optical fiber small enough to fit in a syringe.

The pulsar's rotation is thought to slow because the neutron star's powerful magnetic field acts as a giant dynamo, emitting light, radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation as the star rotates.

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«Over the next years, LIGO will be putting general relativity to its most stringent tests ever, it will be discovering new sources of gravitational waves, and we will be using telescopes on the ground and in space to search for light emitted by these catastrophic events.»

In her free time, Urquhart gets away from the light waves emitted by stars to study ocean waves here on Earth.

The source, located 7.3 billion light years away from us, is a quasar, emitting very strong radio waves.

ALMA successfully received and imaged the radio waves emitted by a distant astronomical object as far as 13 billion light years away.

Lights and radio waves emitted by an object 13 billion light years away reach the Earth over a period of 13 billion years, which means the observed image shows what the object was like 13 billion years ago.

On August 17, 2017 scientists for the first time detected both the ripples in space and time known as gravitational waves as well as light produced and emitted during the same cosmic event: the spectacular collision of two neutron stars.

They emit infrared light waves, which are not visible, that warm your body directly from the inside out.

The y - axis is marks the intensity and the x-axis the wave length (colour) of the light emitted by bodies with a given temperature (PDF - version and R - script generating the figure.)

If the gas temperature were high enough to emit optical wave number light the Beer Lambert Law would fail.

If you have substance which can be heated to 3000 C, it's going have more energy being emitted in the visible light spectrum - and continue to emit shortwave IR and long wave IR.

Also you focused on re-radiating meaning emitting long - wave spectrum - which possible, but I was thinking more about emitting the same wavelength, as mentioned in this quote: «However, aerosols (which often contain water and if so can absorb red wavelengths) are usually larger than visible wavelengths and therefore absorb and reflect all wavelengths of light equally (this is not technically scattering, although it is often called that; it technically involves absorption and re-radiation, or reflection).»

Infrared light is even used to heat food sometimes — special lamps that emit thermal infrared waves are often used in fast food restaurants!

All hot objects emit electromagnetic radiation, which includes radio waves, visible light, and x - rays, as well as ultraviolet and infrared radiation.

The next wave of monitors will feature Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) technology that promises ultra-high contrast ratios, true blacks, and a super-fast pixel response.