Sentences with phrase «gigantic star»

Hitomi was intended to study, among other things, the remnants of gigantic star explosions and the processes by which stars and galaxies form.
Ray Jayawardhana: It is a clue that most likely, these high energy neutrinos come either from jets of particles that are accelerated by super massive black holes at the hearts of galaxies, or from really gigantic stars that explode at the end of their lives that also produce a phenomenon we call gamma ray bursts, which also might accelerate particles to very high speeds and energies.
Long ago, deep in space, two massive black holes — the ultrastrong gravitational fields left behind by gigantic stars that collapsed to infinitesimal points — slowly drew together.
Writing in the Sept. 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, Burrows — along with first author Jason Nordhaus, a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton, and Ann Almgren and John Bell from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California — reports that the Princeton team has developed simulations that are beginning to match the massive blow - outs astronomers have witnessed when gigantic stars die.
A second kind happens when a single gigantic star nears the end of its life, and its core can no longer withstand the gravitational forces acting on it.
Those early objects may have included a generation of gigantic stars, hundreds of times the mass of the sun, or, possibly, a population of black holes, according to Jacqueline Hewitt, a professor of physics at MIT, who is overseeing HERA's new grant.
So why celebrate the spotting of a really, really gigantic star's death?
I wouldn't be angry if I saw a gigantic Star of David at the museum.
The merging black holes that led to the discovery of gravitational waves may have been enveloped inside a gigantic star, which gave off a burst of gamma rays
If this way of forming is common, then these black holes may be the fossil remnants of the gigantic stars that are the most ancient in the universe.
According to their model, SN 2006gy was caused when the nuclear reactions within a gigantic star about 110 times more massive than the sun created enormous numbers of electrons and antielectrons, or positrons.
These gigantic stars would have had surface temperatures of millions of degrees, making them not red - hot or blue - hot, but hot enough to produce gamma rays, the most energetic form of light.
These bright bursts of radiation are normally the result of the dense core of a dead star blowing up or a gigantic star collapsing in on itself.
By investigating how different wavelengths pass through the plasma, scientists can learn more about how a gigantic star factory like M 82 works.
This animation shows a gigantic star exploding in a «core collapse» supernova.
Finding someone to follow Lewis — a gigantic star at that point — proved so difficult that NBC agreed to give Kovacs a handsome budget for a 30 - minute program.
I'd like to start this video off by saying that, like many geeks my age, I am a gigantic Star Wars fan.
For those of you who don't know, the Star Wars Celebration is a convention celebrating the gigantic Star Wars franchise, be it the movies, novels and comics or the games.
What a creative idea on how to repurpose that gigantic star.
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