Sentences with phrase «energetic as a supernova»
In 1992, a remote galaxy called RX J1242 - 11 erupted in a flare of x-rays as energetic as a supernova explosion.
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There, young stars, born during the merger, will explode as supernovas, and a quasar — a giant black hole ignited by the galactic collision — might spew energetic radiation.
Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.
The «Local Bubble» of low - density, hot and ionized gas, is actually part of a tube - like chimney that extends through the local region of the spiral disk into the surrounding galactic halo, and so may can act as a vent for the energetic hot gas produced by supernovae (more).