Sentences with phrase «immense gravity»

The black hole's immense gravity pulled harder on the corona the closer it came, stretching and blurring the X-ray light in the process, researchers said.

Jupiter's immense gravity also diverts many asteroids and comets from potentially catastrophic collisions with Earth and the rest of the inner solar system.

This constant flexing of Europa by Jupiter's immense gravity melts its interior in the same way it melts that of neighboring moon Io, in essence keeping the water ice layers in the interior of Europa in a liquid state that form a global underground ocean.

The black hole's immense gravity stretched and blurred the X-ray light in the process, researchers said.

On the nighttime side, the planet's immense gravity pulls down titanium oxide condensates as snow.

Jupiter's immense gravity also diverts many asteroids and comets from potentially catastrophic collisions with Earth and the rest of the inner solar system.

This constant flexing of Europa by Jupiter's immense gravity melts its interior in the same way it melts that of neighboring Io, causing the latter to be the most volcanically active moon in the entire Solar System.

While humanity is on the edge of a new era, tasks of immense gravity and amplitude await the Church, as in the most tragic periods of its history.

The immense gravity from clusters of galaxies warps the light coming from more distant objects, acting like a cosmic magnifying glass.

He and Swedish colleague Bo Thidé hit upon the approach while studying waves warped by the immense gravity of black holes.

Nineteen months ago, the immense gravity of the black hole, which weighs in at about 4.3 million times the mass of the sun, was already squeezing and stretching the gas cloud as if it were pasta dough.

In 1936 Albert Einstein computed that the immense gravity of massive objects in space — galaxies and black holes — would bend light in a similar fashion to heated air, creating mirages of even more distant objects in the cosmos.

In nature, this happens in stars, where their immense gravity brings nuclei together to form heavier elements.

Astronomers can't observe black holes directly because their immense gravity won't let light escape.

Sagittarius A *'s immense gravity is accelerating the cloud dramatically: in 2004, the cloud was hurtling toward the black hole at 1200 kilometers per second; by 2011, the speed had nearly doubled, reaching 2350 kilometers per second.

Today's ring system is the fossil remains of the last moon to fall prey to Saturn's immense gravity, Canup contends.

The immense gravity of these black holes drags material toward them, forcing the material to heat up and release powerful X-rays.

On the nighttime side, the planet's immense gravity pulls down titanium oxide, which precipitates as snow.

Both aliens are short, about 1 foot (30 centimeters) tall, with thick limbs to support their weight against the immense gravity.

At no point in the GTA4 DLC do they give you a main story character that has such an immense gravity on the plot that it can ruin the contintinuty of the entire game if you are without him, let's call this hypothetical game Blast Defect 3... ahem.

Deploy your wits and weapons - including the immense gravity gun - to free humanity, while enjoying the award - winning physics, graphics and human emotions which made Half - Life 2 such a success.

Let's face it — when we usually think of judges, we think of them as little more than stern, humorless authority figures, perpetual bearers of a dour expression as if to remind all onlookers of the immense gravity of court proceedings.