Sentences with phrase «local universe»

CC: You have a lot of local universes based on potential actions of organisms, and they overlap.

«Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe: Surprise discovery of 17 - billion - solar - mass black hole in sparse area of local universe.»

(The local universe, much larger than the observable, emerges as a fluctuation makes a local spacevolume fall down the potential slope of the field.

MM: I don't think you end up with the same things, you end up with lots of local universes.

Within decades we will know whether man is going to be a physical success around earth, able to function in ever greater patterns of local universe, or whether he is going to frustrate his own success with his negatively conditioned reflexes of yesterday and will bring about his own extinction around the planet earth.

(Of course, his local universe will be dramatically changed as he heads into a re-election campaign given his flirtation with the GOP, although the party switch won't be official until after November).

Computational analysis of Sloan's prodigious data set has uncovered evidence of some of the earliest known astronomical objects, determined that most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes, and even mapped out the three - dimensional structure of the local universe.

If dark energy slows and then flips, eventually pulling in tandem with, rather than against, gravity, the Big Crunch — in which our local universe is crushed down into an infinitely small speck — will be back on the cards, although this seems less likely now.

But they don't — at least not according to what's been observed in the local universe.

«NuSTAR is helping to change the picture of what we know about supermassive black holes, even in the local universe where many questions remain unanswered.

Recent works report that inflow and outflow activities were most significant eleven billion years ago (at redshift ~ 2), and were about a hundred times more active relative to those in the local universe.

A wide view of the local universe, spanning hundreds of millions of light - years, reveals the clumped and weblike structure of the cosmos, with strands of galaxies and immense voids.

Still, quasars in the local universe are rare.

(I never did, but my undergrad adviser, Martha Haynes, uses Arecibo to study the distribution of galaxies in the local universe.)

So those remote regions that we see as they were billions of years ago may look extremely similar to our local universe, now.

In the local universe, it is possible to infer their properties from the surrounding stars or gas.

LSST will map out the faint variable stars that are used to measure distances in the local universe and the flashgunlike supernovae that help gauge longer distances.

This result may open the possibility of probing general relativity beyond our local universe.

The same may be true of most globular clusters in the local universe, says Conroy.

«It's the most precise measurement of the Hubble parameter at any redshift, even better than the measurement we have from the local universe at redshift zero,» says Font - Ribera.

Her research interests include structure, interactions, and star formation in galaxies in the local universe and at high redshift, and she observes in optical, near - infrared, and radio wavelengths.

«NGC 1600 is the first very massive black hole that lives outside a rich environment in the local universe, and could be the first example of a descendent of a very luminous quasar that also didn't live in a privileged site.»

One problem in making such detections is the uncertainty over dark matter's density in the local universe, says Chris Mihos, an astrophysicist at Case Western Reserve University.

Most supermassive black holes in the local universe top out at around one - two - hundredth of the mass of their host galaxies.

It would be the first discovered in a sparsely populated region of the local universe, she said.

The newly discovered black hole is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the opposite part of the sky from the Coma Cluster in a relative desert, said the leader of the discovery team, Chung - Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive.

The team found that equilibrium to be similar to levels of water vapor seen in the local universe.

A near - record supermassive black hole discovered in a sparse area of the local universe indicates that these monster objects — this one equal to 17 billion suns — may be more common than once thought, according to University of California, Berkeley, astronomers.

In the final sequence, the viewer enters an immersive exploration of the filamentary structure of the local universe, navigating inside the filaments and visiting the major nodes such as the Great Attractor.

They said CID - 947 could be a precursor of the most extreme, massive systems observed in today's local universe, such as the galaxy NGC 1277 in the Perseus constellation, 220 million light years from the Milky Way.

Computer simulations derived from Hubble's data show that it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting galaxies to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape into a single elliptical galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen in the local universe.

Title: Variations in the Composition of Cool Stars Abstract: Understanding the chemical composition of cool stars in the solar neighborhood is vital to answering key formation and evolutionary questions for not only our local universe, but also for planets orbiting those stars.

Understanding the chemical composition of cool stars in the solar neighborhood is vital to answering key formation and evolutionary questions for not only our local universe, but also for planets orbiting those stars.

Many optically dark GRBs are located in the local universe but obscured by surrounding dust (more).

In our local universe, massive galaxy clusters form over millions, or even billions, of years as smaller galaxies move closer due to gravitational attraction.

But astronomers were not finding the same quantity of 10,000 - degree intergalactic gas in the local universe.

Many recent results from COS suggest that much of this «missing» gas in the local universe did not disappear, but instead was superheated to millions of degrees after falling into dense regions of the cosmic web.

An international team of astronomers has derived directly, for the first time, the orbital distribution of a galaxy sample, containing more than 300 galaxies of the local universe.