Sentences with phrase «huge stars collapse»

The satellite is likely to repeat its debut performance hundreds of times, helping reveal what happens in the chaotic moments after huge stars collapse to form new black holes.

Here's the deal with gamma - ray bursts: When a huge star collapses, it produces a boatload of radiation in concentrated streams.

Not exact matches

I was reading that some recent research on «super-super novae» is that that the very largest stars collapse, the mechanism differs and huge amounts of matter / anti-matter pairs are formed internally, which can cause the entire star explosion to occur in something like an incredible 12 minutes.

Supernovas happen when huge stars run out of fuel and collapse, creating an explosion that can briefly outshine their host galaxy.

Such «dark matter stars» could have been huge and, when their power source was exhausted, might have collapsed to form giant black holes.

Black holes are supposed to arise when a huge star's core collapses under its own weight - and keeps on going until it is crushed to a point.

Type Ib, Type Ic and Type II supernovae stars start out so huge — possibly 8 times the size of our sun — that they cannibalize themselves to the point of collapse [source: NASA].

We know that these huge clouds collapse under for force of gravity to form stars.

According to Jim Kaler's description of the theoretical predictions of second ascent in Stars, once core helium is used up in creating a huge ball of carbon and oxygen, the star will collapse inward again.

One new idea is that the very first black holes did not form from dead stars at all; instead, they formed directly from the collapse of huge amounts of gas.