Sentences with phrase «from distant galaxies»

If the light from a distant galaxy reaches us having passed through a cluster of say, four stars, she wondered, then how many images might we see?

Without the influence of a force like dark energy, the lines on this data chart, taken from distant galaxies, would be nearly perfect circles.

It has obvious visible effects, like the way it bends light from distant galaxies.

The best way to work out where the dark matter lies is through gravitational lensing — the distortion of the Universe's fabric by gravity, which deflects the light coming from distant galaxies far beyond the dark matter.

The light waves from distant galaxies are stretched and reddened by the expansion of the universe, and this redshift is proportional to a galaxy's distance.

«Quantum foam» — grainy bumps in the fabric of space - time — might explain why light from a distant galaxy arrived four minutes later than expected, offering clues about the real nature of gravity

Together, the telescopes create a virtual dish 9000 kilometers wide that can detect the faintest radio emissions from distant galaxies.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images.

So if the gamma rays have travelled from distant galaxies, the objects which emit them must be releasing enormous amounts of energy.

X-rays from distant galaxies may reveal the appetites of giant black holes that lurk there.

But the force should also change the extent to which the cosmic microwave background (CMB), relic radiation from the big bang, is warped, or «lensed», by the gravity from distant galaxies and dark matter.

With the increases in technology and astronomical know - how since then, a bounty of new objects may await discovery by WISE, from distant galaxies whose optical light is dwarfed by their infrared output to failed stars known as brown dwarfs, some of which may be closer to Earth than the star Proxima Centauri, the sun's nearest known neighbor.

THE discovery of powerful galactic «winds», blowing outwards from distant galaxies, could solve a mystery which has long baffled astronomers: why elements heavier than helium are found in the space between galaxies.

Researchers estimated the rate of star formation by measuring far - infrared wavelengths of light emanating from the distant galaxy.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

This is a subtle variant of weak gravitational lensing, in which the light emitted from distant galaxies is slightly warped by the gravitational effect of large amounts of matter, such as galaxy clusters.

Now Andrew Gould and Jens Villumsen of Ohio State University in Columbus argue that the gravity of nearby galaxy clusters should distort the light from distant galaxies in a way that depends on W.

Tantalizingly, just weeks before The Matrix came out in 1999, astronomers analyzing the light from distant galaxies published hints that the universe's «constants» might not be so constant.

Most stream through matter without being deflected or changed, making them ideal long - distance messengers from distant galaxies.

But a few years later, when Edwin Hubble's analysis of light from distant galaxies confirmed the universe's expansion, Einstein gave in.

When some of those curves are projected back in time, the speed of light becomes so fast that light from distant galaxies conceivably could have reached Earth in several thousand years.

Since we were measuring the dimming of blue light from these distant galaxies caused by the foreground gas, the thin atmosphere at the summit of Mauna Kea allowed more of this blue light to reach the telescope and be measured by the highly sensitive detectors of the LRIS spectrograph.

In space, the light from distant galaxies moving away from us is shifted to redder wavelengths.

It can be difficult to interpret the distortions that occur as light from distant galaxies becomes magnified and bent by the vast mass of the Frontier Fields» galactic clusters.

GLAST is in part a follow - up to CGRO, which found high - energy radiation from distant galaxies believed to contain supermassive black holes — up to a billion times more massive than the sun.

His antithesis and arch nemesis, the blue - skinned Megamind (voice by Will Ferrell), also hails from a distant galaxy.

SYNOPSIS: Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy.

As it turns out, Jupiter's actually entitled to inherit Earth, and is informed of that good fortune by Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a hunky emissary from a distant galaxy.

It's usually some alien race from some distant galaxy but in Twentieth Century Fox's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes it is home - grown apes.

GCR don't come from the sun, but are charged particles from distant galaxies and stars that are modulated by the solar magnetic field.

Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming from distant galaxies.

Want to predict gravitational waves from a distant galaxy where two neutron stars are collinding?

Co-author Dr Luca Cortese said detecting atomic hydrogen emission from distant galaxies is very challenging.

They are inferred to originate from distant galaxies, billions of light - years away.

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images, a technique known as weak gravitational lensing.

For that price, the center got seven high - power lasers, trees illuminated with fiber optics, 5,000 - watt Xenon slide projectors, three 60 - foot circular screens suspended from the ceiling, a 30 - foot - diameter hydraulic sphere that seems to float 80 feet above an ice rink, a custom soundtrack, and a show put on by a group of Big Top performers claiming to have traveled from a distant galaxy to perform in the mall.

They took advantage of a helping hand from nature, too: an effect known as gravitational lensing, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, where light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effect of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and amplifies the brightness of the faint target.

If the expansion continues to accelerate, then in 100 billion years, the gap between galaxies will be growing so fast that light from distant galaxies will no longer reach us.

This is how we see light from distant galaxies — they are, relativistically speaking, billions of years old — but thanks to God's chronoton singularity, we are only a few thousand years old.

MAGNIFYING THE COSMOS The light from a distant galaxy (lower right) is warped by the gravity of a closer, massive galaxy (bright blur in center).

Hubble found that the redder the light from distant galaxies, the faster those galaxies were speeding away.

The light we see from our Sun takes just eight minutes to reach us, while the light from distant galaxies we see via today's advanced telescopes travels for billions of years before it reaches us — so we're seeing what those galaxies looked like billions of years ago.

Billions of years ago, a heatwave struck the universe, leaving its imprint in the light from distant galaxies.

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GALACTIC QUARTET The way invisible dark matter warped the light from distant galaxies, shown here as the swirl of material surrounding four giant galaxies in cluster Abell 3827 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photograph), suggested that dark matter can separate from stars when galaxies collide.

The expansion of the universe causes the light from distant galaxies to be stretched or reddened with increasing distance.