Sentences with phrase «highly magnetized»
As astronomers work to learn more about the environment it, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters makes predictions about what would happen to young, highly magnetized stars in Sgr A *'s vicinity.
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If the pattern holds true, highly magnetized clouds would continue to pass near the black hole over the next several decades.
«One of the immediate impacts is that we might see highly magnetized stars in the centers of galaxies, and that includes our own galactic center,» Guillochon added.
When the material is highly magnetized, co-author Michael McCourt has previously suggested that the fields can help stabilize the clouds and prevent them from breaking apart.
Their low metallicity allows these tiny galaxies to produce more massive stars, and, probably because massive stars have stronger magnetic fields, their explosive deaths can leave behind highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars.
The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the fast radio bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar — in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.
Such highly magnetized plasmas have so far been seen only near the center of the Milky Way, which has its own massive black hole.
«More than 1,200 gamma - ray bursts, plus 500 flares from our sun and a few hundred flares from highly magnetized neutron stars in our galaxy have been seen by the GBM,» said principal investigator Bill Paciesas, a senior scientist at the Universities Space Research Association's Science and Technology Institute in Huntsville, Ala..
Hessels thinks the culprit may be occasional explosions from extremely rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron stars.
Two common models for gamma - ray emission from FRBs exist: one invoking magnetic flare events from magnetars — highly magnetized neutron stars that are the dense remnants of collapsed stars — and another invoking the catastrophic merger of two neutron stars, colliding to form a black hole.
Not exact matches
The radio waves from FRB 121102 are being «twisted» to an extreme degree, indicating that highly - magnetized plasma could be interfering.
«This creates much more effective obstacle to the solar wind because of 1) its larger size compared to the surface of Charon and 2) the fact that it is highly conductive electrically, which diverts the magnetized plasma of the solar wind more efficiently.