Sentences with phrase «ionized gases called»

We don't know for sure, but of the, what I call, baryonic matter, which is 5 percent of the total mass energy density of the universe, one would guess about 90 or 95 percent of it, is in the form of ionized gas called plasma.

Fusion energy is based on the same process that takes place in the sun, where gravity holds together the hot ionized gas called a plasma and nuclei of hydrogen collide together often enough that they occasionally overcome forces keeping them apart, called the Coulomb forces, to fuse together and create a burst of energy, Synakowski explained.

It used an ionized gas called a plasma for fuel and had magnets on the outside to create a magnetic field to contain the plasma and keep it away from the walls.

TKF: Enrico, you study the ionized gas called plasma that composes stars.

Not exact matches

But fusion is no easy matter: The nuclei must be heated to 100 million degrees, and the resulting ionized gas, or plasma, held in place with huge and powerful superconducting electromagnets to prevent it from touching the sides of the vessel, a doughnut - shaped steel enclosure called a tokamak.

Their unprecedented deep observation (long - exposure images) revealed a complex giant ionized gas nebula (called an «H - alpha nebula») surrounding NGC 6240.

Chris Carr of Imperial College London, the principal investigator for a suite of instruments called the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, says he hopes theirs may be the first on the spacecraft to actually detect the comet as solar wind begins to blow gas off its surface and the sun's ultraviolet light ionizes it, leaving a trail of plasma.

The black holes that we can observe directly through their radiant emission are mostly in a configuration where gas swirls around the black hole in the form of an accretion disk and that accretion disk — most of the mass is going to be in an ionized form, and then some of that gas gets expelled from the environment around the black hole, while it is still outside the black hole, it gets squirted out in the form of an outflow, a wind like the solar wind and then [a] much faster, collimated outflow called a jet.

The intense radiation from an AGN can ionize the gas around it (called photoionization), and this may be one mechanism at work in MAMMOTH - 1.

The dwarf galaxy also is of interest because it provides clues to how the early simple universe became re-ionized by early star formation, moving it from the so - called cosmic Dark Ages of neutral gases to the development of the complexly structured universe now in existence, where the gas between galaxies is ionized.

After the Big Bang, the rapidly expanding universe was filled with a hot soup of ionized gas, called a plasma.