Sentences with phrase «generating bursts of light»
The normal star dumps material onto the white dwarf, generating bursts of light that earn the duo the name of cataclysmic variables.
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Such cataclysms are expected to generate a high - energy flash of light, called a gamma - ray burst (yellow jets).
In 2008, Eleftherios Goulielmakis at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and his colleagues generated what were then the shortest pulses of light ever achieved: extreme ultraviolet bursts just 80 attoseconds long.
This reconnection generates attosecond bursts of light that combine to form an attosecond laser pulse.
But a new method that generates supershort bursts of laser light allowed researchers to nab a high - resolution shot of the elusive electron.
The lasers generate plasmas that shed light on cosmic bursts of subatomic particles that give rise to solar eruptions and solar flares and accelerate cosmic rays to near the speed of light.