Sentences with phrase «in a supernova event»

Residing in the plane of the Milky Way, where it can not be observed by optical telescopes because of obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, Circinus X-1 is the glowing husk of a binary star system that exploded in a supernova event just 2,500 years ago.

Not exact matches

Ripples in space time have already been observed when hyper - violent events, such as stars collapsing into black holes or supernova explosions, occur.

In the two and a half decades since then the remnant of Supernova 1987A has continued to be a focus for researchers the world over, providing a wealth of information about one of the Universe's most extreme events.

In addition to identifying these events, the NERSC simulations also helped them prove that strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae can be very accurate cosmological probes.

«In fact, the energy and timescale of the gamma - ray emission is a better match to some types of supernovae, or to some of the supermassive black hole accretion events that Swift has seen,» Fox said.

It was created by one of the most violent events that can happen in the Universe — a supernova explosion.

«All the elements that exist — that are here on Earth — that are heavier than iron were either made in supernovas or other cataclysmic events in astronomy,» says physicist Clarence Virtue of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada.

Rob Beswick, a co-author of the research paper from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics added: «The explosion of a Type Ia supernova is a rare event in the nearby Universe.

An alert system to notify astronomers about Gaia discoveries of transient events like supernovae (exploding stars) is already in operation.

No further bursts were seen in 90 hours of additional observations, which implies that it was a singular event such as a supernova or coalescence of relativistic objects.

At a news briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., today, astronomers told stunning tales of Supernova 2006gy, the largest such event ever recorded and one so extreme it existed only in theory up to now.

When stars run out of gas, they explode in an event termed a supernova.

Three potential events were considered as part of their research, including; large asteroid impact, and exploding stars in the form of supernovae or gamma ray bursts.

Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: «A lot of previous work has focused on «doomsday» scenarios on Earth — astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.

Using other lensed galaxies within the cluster and combining them with the discovery of the Einstein Cross event in 2014, astronomers were able to make precise predictions for the reappearance of the supernova.

Some cosmic rays detected on Earth are produced in violent events such as supernovae, but we still don't know the origins of the highest - energy particles, which are the most energetic particles ever seen in nature.

In return, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations will be sifting through data to search for gravitational waves that could have been generated by events, such as supernova explosions, seen by the conventional observatories.

In the catastrophic events leading to a supernova explosion and for roughly 1,000 seconds thereafter, a great variety of nuclear reactions can take place.

The Seagull nebula thus lies at a celestial river fork or street intersection and must be influenced by stellar winds, supernovae and other events originating in both branches of the Orion spur.

Astrophysicists keenly study supernovae not only to understand the mechanics of stars, but also to learn more about the abundance of elements in the cosmos, the heavier varieties of which are created by these uncommon events.

In more massive stars, this cycle of events can continue, with the stellar core reaching ever - higher temperatures and fusing increasingly heavy nuclei, until the star eventually experiences a supernova explosion (see below Evolution of high - mass stars).

Some time in the next several billion years a similar event will rip apart N55, redistributing cosmic gas and dust as the nebula's constituent stars die in spectacular supernovae.

These studies could research events like supernovae in incredible detail.

Dr. Stanislav Adamenko, the laboratory's scientific director, believes that these experiments are microscopic analogs of events occurring in supernovas and other phenomena involving Z - pinched electrical pulses.36

They had thought about searching for supernovae, but since supernovae are such rare events, they didn't mention it in their proposal.

A long - standing goal of the LIGO project has been the development of multi-messenger astronomy — the near - simultaneous observation of cataclysmic events such as neutron star mergers or supernova explosions in both gravitational waves and light, providing details about the astrophysics of these phenomena that can't be revealed through either alone.

Stunned astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion about 200 times more powerful than a typical supernova — events which already rank amongst the mightiest outbursts in the universe — and more than twice as luminous as the previous record - holding supernova.

I'm interested in extreme astrophysical events like core - collapse supernovae and compact object mergers.

«There are also two other classes of extreme events — long duration gamma - ray bursts and superluminous supernovae — that frequently occur in dwarf galaxies, as well.

Compare this failure to the studio - engineered failure of Walter Hill's Supernova: Where Event Horizon appears strangled in the womb for its entire second half, Hill's picture, despite the studio - mandated changes imposed on it in post-production, bristles with ideas about who we are and, more importantly, what our dreams say about us.

Riding on the crest of energy and enthusiasm, 150 bloggers, speakers and partners (sponsored by MSC Cruises and VisitDenmark) attended the event taking place on a beautiful sunny April weekend taking in 12 atomic workshops, a galactic Question Time Session, Cosmic Pro Bar one on one sessions, all kicked off by a starry TravelMassive inspired Welcome Party, a SuperNova AfterParty and finishing off with a supercluster of a Working Breakfast and a PhotoWalk around Brighton that electrified Bohemian Brighton to explode on the seafront causing protests.

GCRs are modulated by both solar magnetic field, which is largely unpredictable in strength except for generalities associated with 11 - year sunspot cycle and is also modulated by unpredictable events like nearby supernovas, and by more predictable very very long slow changes in intensity due to the solar system traversing spiral arms of our galaxy and wandering above and below the galactic plane in cycles lasting tens and hundreds of millions of years.