Sentences with phrase «massive as the sun»

But if the star is more than about eight times as massive as the sun, it can keep going, forging heavier elements.

Comparison with computer simulations reveals that the wave came from two objects 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun spiraling to within 210 kilometers of each other before merging.

Hydrogen molecules aren't the best coolant, but they are good enough to enable giant gas clouds, millions of times as massive as the sun, to fall in on themselves.

In it, black holes 25 and 31 times as massive as the sun spiraled together in a galaxy 1.8 billion light - years away.

Others were triggered when a star at least eight times as massive as the sun blows itself apart.

That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

One is that two heavyweight stars, each more than roughly 20 times as massive as the sun, are born, live and detonate together.

The star, which was 25 times as massive as our sun, should have exploded in a very bright supernova.

Astronomers think the youthful, 200 - million - year - old star is more than twice as massive as our sun.

Spitzer is conducting a systematic study of the dust around more than 300 nearby stars, each about 2.5 times as massive as the sun.

At its very heart, we suspect, lurks a monstrous black hole more than 4 million times as massive as the sun.

Previously the most massive neutron star known was between 1.66 and 1.68 times as massive as the sun.

Astronomers now think that the center of our Milky Way is home to a black hole nearly 3 million times as massive as the sun.

Josh Bloom, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, traced the burst to the center of a galaxy that hosts a black hole millions of times as massive as the sun, and concluded that the hole had just eaten a star - size meal (illustrated below).

(Prior simulations of the primordial universe had suggested that the first stars were mostly lone giants, up to 300 times as massive as our sun.)

But within the Milky Way's invisible heart lurks something even darker: a black hole about 4 million times as massive as the sun.

Stars can grow no bigger than 150 times as massive as our sun, according to a study of the dazzling «Arches» cluster near the center of our galaxy — shown here in an artist's impression.

The explosion and collapse of a star 40 times as massive as the sun should easily create a black hole.

For instance, the black hole in our own Milky Way galaxy is 4.3 million times as massive as the sun.

Much to their surprise, all three gas - rich disks surrounded stars about twice as massive as the Sun.

And some of these brilliant stars, those born 140 to 300 times as massive as the sun, exploded in a way unseen in the Milky Way today.

Whereas previous work indicated that the hydrogen gas was half a billion times as massive as the sun, Fox's team puts the number at 2 billion solar masses.

There maybe millions of such black holes floating around our own galaxy, eachfive or 10 times as massive as our sun and roughly 50 miles around, each spinning more or less furiously — once a millisecond or so would bepossible.

After all, it would require Alice to almost instantly measure the spin of a black hole as massive as the sun to within a single atom's spin.

The spectra of the white dwarfs indicate the stars are 53 % as massive as the sun.

The first star is about two thirds as massive as our sun, and the second star is about one sixth as massive.

The huge stars, one about 100 times as massive as the sun and the other about 30 times, are blowing off material in stellar winds at a furious rate — roughly the mass of Jupiter every year.

Computer models showed that each was about 30 times as massive as our sun.

Beginning in 1998, their groups have independently produced compelling evidence for the once controversial notion that our galaxy has at its center a supermassive black hole which is about 4 million times as massive as the sun.

Some of these early stars were huge, a hundred times as massive as the sun, and lived short, spectacular lives, dying in gigantic explosions known as supernovae.

Strader says that's a characteristic of black holes that are 10 times to 20 times as massive as the sun, on the heavy side for stellar - mass black holes, making them comparable to the black hole in Cygnus X-1, which is 15 solar masses.

Since big black holes tend to reside at the cores of big galaxies, the huge masses of these two compact galaxies» black holes — about 4 to 6 million times as massive as our sun — are the strongest indication that the dwarf galaxies are not traditional dwarfs and the black holes are not overweight.

Astronomers studied 30 stars, with masses between 80 and 140 percent as massive as the Sun, exhibiting rotational periods between four and 23 days.

Now, a team of researchers using the ASTE Telescope in Chile and the 45 - meter Radio Telescope at Japan's Nobeyama Radio Observatory, has, quite serendipitously, discovered one such black hole — one that is estimated to be roughly 36 times as massive as the sun.

A NASA - led team of scientists thinks the star — which is about 10 times as massive as our sun and emits about 20,000 times as much energy — is a newly forming protostar.

Located about 180 light - years away in the constellation Hydra the Water Snake, TW Hydrae consists of a 10 million - year - old star about four - fifths as massive as the Sun.

More than twice as massive as the Sun and nearly twice as hot, KELT - 9 is a rare star — one of a group of stars making up less than one percent of the total stars in the universe.

The eclipsing stars are 20 % and 69 % as massive as the sun, and have an eccentric 41 - day orbit.

[5] The secondary star is a K - type main - sequence star that is 0.79 times as massive as the Sun, and with a surface temperature of 4,780 K. [3]

51 Eri A is seven times brighter and about twice as massive as the Sun, giving exoplanet 51 Eri b an effective temperature between 600 and 750 Kelvin.

Supernovas seed the universe with many elements, including the gold in jewelry, the calcium in bones and the iron in blood, when stars at least eight times as massive as the sun blow up.

The blue color reveals to astronomers that associations of stars 5 to 20 times as massive as our sun are forming in this region.

Deep in the heart of the spiral Milky Way galaxy, a hot vortex of matter swirls around a black hole more than a million times as massive as the sun.

Not exact matches

Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it's sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space.

Newton's laws do not have capacity or pretense to apply geometrical or inverse relationships to the power of God in effecting the natural, specifically any large body such as sun and moon (The Principia deals primarily with massive bodies in motion).

Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

All this while the club's spending on transfers is miserly at best and our esteemed owner Stan Kroenke is revealed in another report by The Sun as having just splashed out around half a billion on a massive ranch, to go with the three others he already owns.

«Having a child is massive in your life and changes you as a person — but I'm loving every minute of it,» Milner was quoted by the Sun.

Astronomers previously thought that this type of «ultraluminous X-ray source» was likely to be made up of black holes five to 50 times more massive than our sun, radiating energy as they pull in nearby matter.