Sentences with phrase «extreme as a black hole»

Ten linked equations — Einstein's field equations — describe precisely how space - time is curved for any given distribution of matter and energy, even for something as extreme as a black hole.

Not exact matches

The gap between Einstein and Newton increases as gravity gets stronger and the curvature of space more extreme — black holes being the most extreme case of all.

They travel like waves on a pond, spreading outwards from sources of extreme gravitational disturbance such as the collision of a star with a black hole.

The gap between Einstein and Newton increases as gravity gets strongerand the curvature of space more extreme — black holes being the mostextreme case of all.

The nearly 100 percent polarization of the radio bursts is unusual, and has only been seen in radio emissions from the extreme magnetic environments around massive black holes, such as those at the centers of galaxies.

Astro - H is an X-ray observatory, scheduled for launch in 2015, that will explore extreme phenomena such as black holes, supernovae explosions, and clusters of galaxies.

Astronomers have studied many black holes at either size extreme — «stellar - mass» black holes, which are a few dozen times as weighty as the sun, and supermassive black holes, which can contain millions or billions of times the mass of the sun and lurk at the heart of most, if not all, galaxies.

Thorne had, since the 1960s, been evaluating how extreme events in the universe, such as colliding black holes and neutron stars, would generate gravitational radiation.

Astrophysicists are hugely interested in black holes, as they're the most compact, gravitationally dominant objects known in the universe and, therefore, an extreme test for relativity.

Known as a quasar, this type of galaxy lit up the early universe, and their extreme activity was driven by the black hole dynamos in their cores.

Just as the name implies, this extreme caving experience also involves a long black hole drop into a cave.