Sentences with phrase «magnetic field lines into»

From their analysis of this occurrence, the team determined that a favorable evolution bring non-parallel magnetic field lines into close proximity and intensify current sheets.

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On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.

The curved blue lines show the pulsar's magnetic field and the blue cones show the radiation the star sends into space.

As matter falls into it and increases its spin, it stores energy; it releases energy again and slows down a bit as the magnetic field lines accelerate charged particles.

When the gas plunges into the black hole, it follows the magnetic field lines.

Around spinning black holes, however, frame dragging could be hugely important: By whipping magnetic field lines through the electrically charged gas around the holes, it could convert them into electromagnetic generators, which would explain how they spew jets of energetic particles millions of light - years into space.

Physicists believe that the explanation lies in giant waves that spread into space along the Sun's magnetic field lines, making them wobble like a washing line yanked hard at one end.

Similar to how water in a bathtub forms a whirlpool as it goes down a drain, the gas and magnetic fields that feed a supermassive black hole swirl to form a rotating disk — a tangled spaghetti of magnetic field lines mixed into a broth of hot gas.

When boiling carries them up to the surface and farther into the sun's lower atmosphere, magnetic field lines rapidly snap back into place to resolve the tension, expelling plasma and energy.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

The blackhole acts like a flywheel: As matter falls into it and increases itsspin, it stores energy; it releases energy again and slows down a bitas the magnetic field lines accelerate charged particles.

The data suggest that in the chromosphere magnetic field lines break and reconnect to generate the heat and drive the electrons up into the loops, Aschwanden says.

Magnetic field lines, erupting from a dynamo inside the sun, sculpt the corona into a menagerie of shapes with different names: loops, streamers, empty holes and mass ejections that burp outwards.

CMEs occur when magnetic field lines at the visible surface of the Sun become tangled and break, releasing large quantities of electrically charged particles into space.

Their powerful magnetic field lines accelerate electrons to high speeds, causing them to collide with photons, which split into pairs of electrons and...

«You can then follow a magnetic field line from Earth directly into the solar wind.»

A popular theoretical model says that magnetic - field lines in the spinning disk are twisted tightly together and confine the fast - moving particles into narrow «jets» streaming from the poles of the disk.

As the magnetic field lines pushed close together, the long lines broke apart and reformed like a single stretched rubber band, forming a slingshot that propels the plasma and releases the energy into the plasma, accelerating the plasma and heating it.