Sentences with phrase «for strong gravitational»

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Too, it need be considered why Jupiter is where it is and its size, for it's huge size (mass) has a strong gravitational effect on meteors and asteroids going near it, causing them to either be absorbed by it or deflecting them away from the earth.

The resulting theory, though founded on quite different principles and developed in an independent fashion from Einstein's theory, nevertheless gives predictions that are identical to the latter's, within observable limits, for each of the four classic tests of gravitational theories (i.e., precession of the perihelion of Mercury, redshift of light emitted by a massive body, the bending of light - beams in a strong gravitational field, and the apparent slowing of the speed of light propagation near massive bodies).

By studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alone.

Because of that equivalence principle, then, the same must be true for gravity: As a gravitational field grows stronger, time slows even more.

Eisenhardt's team has only recently finished processing the image, but he says that it also shows «strong evidence for gravitational lensing».

The European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, due for launch in 2020, will set astronomers a huge challenge: to analyse one hundred thousand strong gravitational lenses.

On September 14, 2015, just after the Advanced LIGO interferometers began their first search for gravitational waves, they captured a strong signal.

Abstract: We measure the average mass properties of a sample of 41 strong gravitational lenses at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4 - 0.9), and present the lens redshift for 6 of these galaxies for the first time.

Using the techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing on archival data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope, we determine that the average mass overdensity profile of the lenses can be fit wi... ▽ More We measure the average mass properties of a sample of 41 strong gravitational lenses at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4 - 0.9), and present the lens redshift for 6 of these galaxies for the first time.

This detection has, in a single stroke and for the first time, validated Einstein's theory of general relativity for very strong fields, established the nature of gravitational waves, demonstrated the existence of black holes with masses 30 times that of our sun, and opened a new window on the universe.

We thank Matthias Tecza, Stuart Lynn, Kelly Borden, Laura Whyte, Brooke Simmons, David Hogg, Daniel Foreman - Mackey, Thomas Jennings, Layne Wright, Cecile Faure, Jonathan Coles, Stuart Lowe, Alexander Fritz and Jean - Paul Kneib for many useful conversations about citizen science and gravitational lens detection, and for helping guide the discussion at Space Warps Talk, and to the Dark Energy Survey and Pan-STARRS strong lensing science teams for their suggestions and encouragement.

The orbital angles for these objects cluster in a way which suggests that most of them were perturbed during a single strong gravitational encounter.

Scientists have played with the idea that the sun isn't just waiting passively for comets but is actually luring them into the solar system with its strong gravitational pull [source: Laursen].

The «pause», should it continue, will discredit every model that did not predict it, including every model that included a strong functional relationship with CO2 without strong residual («natural») processes of hypothesized influences (the gravitational thingies of Scafetta, for example), or processes of unknown causation.