Sentences with phrase «jet of material»

A comet produces jets of material as it travels close to the sun in its orbit.

The extra arms appear to be an indirect result of jets of material produced by the violent churning of matter around the black hole.

Some of them are very dramatic, producing jets of material.

One alternative is the galaxy's active nucleus, with radio emission coming from jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Other red features include jets of material ejected from these young stars.

A quick glance at the Hubble picture at top shows that this celestial body, called He 2 - 90, looks like a young, dust - enshrouded star with narrow jets of material streaming from each side.

«We expect to find very distant radio galaxies — galaxies spewing jets of material at nearly light speed and powered by supermassive black holes,» said Joseph Lazio of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.

Some big ellipticals do indeed harbor large amounts of cold gas — but these reservoirs likely get heated up or driven off by powerful jets of material blasted out by supermassive black holes, which lurk at the heart of most if not all galaxies.

That material formed a rapidly - spinning disk that generated a pair of narrow, superfast jets of material flowing outward from its poles.

Hubble observations in the past 10 years have revealed that young stars with planet - forming discs can shoot jets of material from their poles.

«In radio - loud quasars, the intense radio emission clearly comes from vast jets of material blasted out from the region around a central black hole.

So the scientists set out to test two main theories: whether the supernova was caused in part by two narrow jets of material streaming out of either end of a rotating star, or whether it was the result of stuff «sloshing» around inside, leaving behind a lumpy shape.

Another possibility is a rare type of exploding star that spews jets of material.

Such an «accretion disk» is believed responsible for generating jets of material that, drawing on the black hole's gravitational energy, are boosted to speeds nearly equal to that of light.

The field heats the disk material to such high temperatures that it creates a fireball of gamma rays and plasma and squirts out bi-polar jets of material near the speed of light along the rotational axis.

Neutron star collisions are expected to emit bright jets of material, creating X-rays that fade quickly.

«Jets of material then hit the expanding outer layers of the star to produce the gamma - ray emission.»

The pair orbit each other once every 4.8 hours, shining in X-rays and occasionally sending jets of material, or flares, outwards at close to the speed of light.

«One of the things that happens is very high - energy particles get ejected, and probably shock waves, and you can get jets of material coming off of the thing.»

The supermassive black hole was found to have faint jets of material shooting out from it and helps to confirm scientists» theories about the nature of black holes.

In this artist's conception of infant solar system, the young star pulls material from its surroundings into rotating disk (right) and generates outflowing jets of material (left).

Two separate jets of material from near the pulsar appear in the X-ray and the radio images.

SS 433 was the first example of what now are termed microquasars, binary systems with either a neutron star or black hole orbited by another star, and emitting jets of material at high speeds.

Supermassive black holes fire out powerful jets of material, and new research published in the journal Nature has revealed, for the first time, stars developing in this extreme environment.

Neil Gehrels, project scientist for Compton, says the gamma rays come from jets of material emitted by quasars, and that the 11 sources picked up are all jets pointing towards the Earth.

Microquasars within our own Galaxy, because they are closer and thus easier to study than distant quasars, have become invaluable «laboratories» for revealing the physical processes that produce superfast jets of material.

Now, as astronomers report online today in Nature, the x-ray data as well as radio observations indicate the fireworks caused a narrow jet of material to shoot away from the black hole's outskirts.

Astronomers had theorized that gamma rays are born when a large supernova, called a hypernova, spits out jets of material that interact with a star's outer layers.

Inside these motors, laser pulses fired into a mass of solid propellant cause a jet of material to be...

Black holes, being rather destructive, could surely stop a galaxy from forming — say, by blasting out radiation or jets of material.

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

The top candidates, the astronomers suggested, are a neutron star, possibly a highly - magnetic magnetar, surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar, or an active nucleus in the galaxy, with radio emission coming from jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole.

One possibility that the new study raises is that the collision launched a powerful jet of material that shock - heated the surrounding gas given off at the same time, which continues to glow.

At left (in the short gamma - ray burst [SGRB] scenario), a jet of material moving at nearly the speed of light is propelled from the collision site into a sphere of material initially blown out by the resulting explosion.