Sentences with phrase «incredibly small mass»

Part of the EXO - 200 underground detector used to search for a hypothesized radioactive decay that could reveal how neutrinos acquire their incredibly small mass.

Not exact matches

These asteroid - sized objects pack sunlike masses, extremely small orbits, and incredibly fast spins.

Indeed, neutrinos have the smallest mass of any known particle — and yet they are incredibly important for understanding the world around us.

Of red matter, Phil Plait complained in Bad Astronomy, «The red matter black hole would be incredibly small, probably smaller than an atom, and that would make it hard to gobble down enough mass to grow rapidly.»

These stars are incredibly dense, and because they contain so much mass packed into such a small volume, the gravitation at the neutron star's surface is immense.