Both would have been born
from massive stars that evolved in close proximity in ancient star factories as a binary pair, eventually dying as supernovas.
Is star formation triggered mainly by shockwaves from exploding stars, or the pressure created by radiation and stellar winds
from massive stars — or can those processes get in the way of the collapse?
The intense radiation and strong outflows
from these massive stars caused nearby gas to dissipate.
In the modern universe, black holes typically form
from massive stars that collapse under their own gravity at the ends of their lives.
In addition to clarifying what proportion of black holes are born without fanfare, the survey may also detect rare, giant outbursts
from massive stars that are close to going supernova.
They picked up the gas by its microwave emissions — suspecting that radiation
from massive stars nearby had ionised the gas.
If shells of material do exist near bursts, they probably come
from the massive stars themselves or from other supernovas popping off nearby, he adds.
It is possible that the radiation and stellar winds
from massive stars actually help create denser spots within the pillars, which can then form stars.
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave
from a massive star's collapse ricochets back from the star's core and pushes stellar material outward.
«The UV radiation
from a massive star will ionize and heat up disks of gas surrounding nearby low - mass stars,» Bally says.
When a black hole is created from a supernova
from a massive star or a collision between neutron stars (or a neutron star with a black hole), one of a pair of bi-polar jets of gamma rays travelling at near light - speed may be directed at the Earth (more).
Not exact matches
About 7,500 light - years
from Earth, two of our galaxy's most
massive stars have engaged in a mysterious war that's raged off - and - on for millennia.
Following a
massive five - year renovation, Vancouver's venerable Hotel Georgia reopened last summer along with a hotly anticipated new restaurant
from star chef David Hawksworth.
The waters came
from inside the earth (actually «under» would probably be a better translation because the earth was considered pretty flat at this time) and a
massive canopy of hovering water that existed between the atmosphere and the
massive hard dome (the firmament) that contained the fixed
stars.
From being a
massive favourite among Arsenal fans, even when he left the Emirates to return to his boyhood club Barcelona back in 2011, the Spain international midfield
star Cesc Fabregas became persona non grata with Gooners after he came back to the Premier League two years ago to join up with Arsene Wenger's old nemesis Jose Mourinho.
Manchester United could be done a
massive favour by their former
star Cristiano Ronaldo as he reportedly discourages Real Madrid
from pursuing the transfer of David de Gea.
So the former Arsenal academy
star Kristoffer Olsson and his team mates
from the Danish champions FC Midtjylland did us a
massive favour by inflicting a painful and damaging defeat on Louis van Gaal and his players last night.
It would need to be a
massive bid to prise the brilliant Borussia Dortmund
star away
from his club, and with Bayern Munich closing in it won't be easy.
Khedira Man Utd: Manchester United set to offer
massive contract to Real Madrid
star to tempt him away
from Arsenal.
EuroPalace in particular cover a huge range of sports - related slots,
from «Bullseye» to «Basketball
Star» in a bid to cash in on this growing trend ««and with their
massive $ 500 bonus just for opening an account, business is good.
The Ducks boast some high - ceiling holdovers
from the previous era, and Brooks - James could be ready for a
massive star turn.
Staying fit is a
massive issue for our injury hit
star, we all know that and probably nobody more than the player himself, but he must be feeling good about his impact off the bench in a tough game against Cologne because I am and I can not help but wonder what will happen
from now on.
Arsenal have registered a
massive 45 players
from the First team, the reserves and the Academy, for our six Europa League games against BATE, Koln & Red
Star Belgrade, which would seem to indicate that he is going to give a lot of our youngsters a run - out in the competition while our senior players attempt to get back into contention for the Premier League.
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stars Liverpool dealt
massive managerial blow as Jurgen Klopp reveals he is to take break
from the game
According to a report
from the Daily
Star, Arsenal are preparing a # 65 million bid for the Everton striker Romelu Lukaku as the club prepares a
massive summer overhaul ahead of next season.
The governors of New York and New Jersey planned a cover story to contain political fallout
from the
massive traffic jams caused by lane closures on the George Washington Bridge, the government's
star witness testified Tuesday.
«Amateur astronomer captures rare first light
from massive exploding
star: First observation of optical light
from shock breakout in a supernova explosion.»
Method: Euclid will measure gravitational lensing, where light
from far - off objects bends around a
massive body (a regular
star or cluster of dark matter), to determine dark matter's distribution.
Artemio Herrero, IAC / ULL researcher and co-author, explains: «Understanding the physics of
massive stars under the varying conditions found
from the Milky Way to the early Universe is fundamental to our knowledge of the cosmos evolution and how we see it presently.»
Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realized that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges
from a
massive exploding
star.
Mysteriously, most of these black holes are inconveniently sized, appearing too large to have readily formed directly
from dying
massive stars.
Other
stars are forming around the rim of the bubble, and one of them is already
massive enough that its fate is sealed: one day, million of years
from now, it will explode.
That
massive group of
stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years
from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).
Gravitational waves detectable
from Earth are generated by collisions of
massive objects, such as when two black holes or neutron
stars merge.
Such conditions exist, they say, around a
massive black hole (like the one above), and the short duration of the pulses suggests they come
from something small, like a neutron
star.
«
Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cos
Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae
from the most
massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cos
massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.
The energy spectrum and periodic fluctuations of the X-rays, recorded by the INTEGRAL satellite, suggest they are coming
from young binary
star systems in which a neutron
star is stealing matter
from its
massive companion.
Astronomers captured these dramatic images of the remains of a 500 - year - old explosion as they explored the firework - like debris
from the birth of a group of
massive stars, demonstrating that
star formation can be a violent and explosive process too.
The team says the pulsar's path indicates that 800,000 years ago it was fired
from a cluster of
massive stars that now lies about 6500 light years away
from Earth (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol 400, p L99).
In an ironic twist, one of the first consequences of the formation of a
massive star is that it starts to destroy the cloud
from which it was born.
There they found the flung - out debris
from the explosive birth of this clump of
massive stars, looking like a cosmic version of fireworks with giant streamers rocketing off in all directions.
Most astrophysicists think that gamma ray bursts, fantastically energetic flares
from deep space, stream
from new black holes that form when the cores of
massive spinning
stars collapse to trigger supernovas.
How these winds work is largely mysterious, but important insights come
from stormy encounters where two
massive stars orbit in a tight pair.
Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate
from interactions between
massive objects like neutron
stars and supermassive black holes.
Instead of using visible light, Dame and others map the Milky Way by looking for radio emissions
from molecular gas clouds and
massive, young
stars, both of which typically reside in spiral arms.
According to the team's models, so many
stars have been ripped
from the Sagittarius dwarf in the last 2 billion years that the little galaxy — 10,000 times less
massive than the Milky Way — is on its last legs.
Another possibility is that a
massive pulse of burning carbon
from the center of the
star, emulating outwards, eliminated the lighter elements.
Now Rahman and his colleagues have identified a knot of 400
massive stars in the cloud's heart in images
from the infrared 2 Micron All Sky Survey (Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press).
That wobble is a whisper that speaks volumes, revealing that this world is just one third more
massive than Earth and resides in an 11 - day orbit some seven million kilometers
from its
star.
NASA is sketching out plans to send a probe to visit Alpha Centauri, our nearest
star system, along with a
massive telescope to watch its journey
from home