Sentences with phrase «for orbiting pairs»

«We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger.

Not exact matches

No collisions have been observed directly, but astronomers have found several pairs of black holes that are very close to each other, including some that are orbiting each other and some that seem to be on course for a collision.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

Tito's not - for - profit mission, called Inspiration Mars, was initially supposed to use entirely private or commercial vehicles to launch a pair of astronauts into Earth orbit in early 2018.

One leading scenario for forming tightly orbiting black holes starts with a pair of massive stars already orbiting each other.

But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations.

The problem is exacerbated by the lack of an adequate replacement for a pair of Earth - observation satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory, which failed on launch in the past two years.

PULSAR PAIR A system of two radio beam — emitting pulsars locked in tight orbits, illustrated here, is an ideal test bed for measuring gravitational waves and other effects of general relativity.

KOI 1843.03 is not a confirmed planet yet — a pair of stars that orbit each other behind the target star can create the same signal, for instance.

Physicists have known for decades that every pair of orbiting bodies is a source of gravitational waves.

During the relatively brief, combined giant phases of the two stars at present, however, a planet could orbit the Aab pair far enough out for the two stars to act as a single gravitational source and near enough for it to receive enough energy to sustain life, possibly around 12.5 AUs out from the binary.

Fortunately, they do indeed often travel in orbiting pairs, and do sometimes, for a very brief period before they merge, orbit rapidly enough to produce gravitational waves that LIGO and VIRGO can observe.

The forty - nine experts who discovered this planet admit that they have no theoretical understanding for how such a planetary system could have evolved.10 One planetary system (having at least two planets) orbits a pair of suns!

Normally, NASA watches for this wild space weather using solar observatories like SOHO and the STEREO mission, a pair of solar - orbiting satellites pointed at the Sun from two different angles.

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