Sentences with phrase «massive bursts of»

It's also the only one of the new abilities that managed to receive a Robobot Mode, where the mech creates massive bursts of psychokinetic energy in its palms.

His team's work has shown only that exposure to such massive bursts of radiation would almost certainly peel away a planet's protective ozone layer.

According to this scenario, massive bursts of star formation should have accompanied the initial growth of black holes, but so far, that has been hard to confirm.

A similar fate may have befallen forests 252 million years ago, when massive bursts of volcanic gases likely weakened Earth's ozone shield.

Spring has not even popped into full bloom, but the indoor greenhouse had massive bursts of kale and beautiful, reddish lettuce blossoms that looked like roses.

A massive burst of solar wind that erupted from the sun Tuesday is expected to deliver only a «glancing blow» to the Earth's vulnerable magnetic field, NASA officials said yesterday.

A suite of Sun - gazing spacecraft, SOHO, STEREO and Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have spotted an unusual series of eruptions in which a series of fast «puffs» force the slow ejection of a massive burst of plasma from the Sun's corona.

IRAS also discovered many previously unknown galaxies that emit most of their energy in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (these are known as ultraluminous infrared galaxies), apparently owing to a massive burst of star formation during the merger of two galaxies.

The resulting shock waves would have compressed interstellar gas within the tilted disk of the impact to set off a massive burst of star - formation.

Cortisol pumps you up into the classic fight or flight mode; you get a massive burst of energy, you lose any subtlety in your movements.

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Rudd plans third stimulus Treasury is preparing the ground for a massive new burst of fiscal stimulus in next month's budget, declaring that the measures to date have averted a plunge in consumer spending.

For years the club built a massive stack of deadwood and now the damn has finally burst and they are just pouring out.

I was in my seat in the old East stand with a mate and he's young son when my mate gave me nudge and said «you seen who's behind us» as I turned round it was Joe and without any hesitation said «seen anything of him» and in he's broad Scottish accent, although Joe was English, born in Liverpool to a Seaman father, he grew up in Scotland, «who's that» he said, I said Ron Yeats, with that we all burst out laughing, I then lifted my mates young son, turned him round and said «see this man, he's the greatest centre forward ever to play for Arsenal» I got a massive smile from Joe and could see that it made he's day, made mine as well

At sixteen, he has already caught the eye of a few massive clubs in England after bursting onto the scene at Craven Cottage in his breakthrough season.

Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.

«Gamma - ray bursts are catastrophic events, related to the explosion of massive stars 50 times the size of our sun.

This image shows the most common type of gamma - ray burst, thought to occur when a massive star collapses, forms a black hole, and blasts particle jets outward at nearly the speed of light.

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.

A SUPERNOVA that burst onto the cosmic scene in April 2007 was probably the death throes of the most massive star yet discovered.

If shells of material do exist near bursts, they probably come from the massive stars themselves or from other supernovas popping off nearby, he adds.

Most astrophysicists think that gamma ray bursts, fantastically energetic flares from deep space, stream from new black holes that form when the cores of massive spinning stars collapse to trigger supernovas.

When a massive star dies, it explodes as a supernova, which includes a short burst of visible light, as in this illustration.

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).

«Many astronomers, including our group, have already provided a great deal of evidence that long - duration gamma - ray bursts (those lasting more than two seconds) are produced by the collapse of extremely massive stars.

Bursts probably occur after a hypernova, an extremely rare explosion of a star so massive it can barely support its own bulk.

Last April astronomical detectives announced a break: An orbiting X-ray observatory picked up the chemical fingerprints of several elements in a burst's afterglow, identifying the object as an unusual type of supernova — the detonation of a massive, dying star.

Extremely bright exploding stars, called superluminous supernovae, and long gamma ray bursts also occur in this type of galaxy, he noted, and both are hypothesized to be associated with massive, highly magnetic and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetars.

They took a black and white movie camera and visually documented a clutch of tree - trunks still standing and no crater... indicating a massive air - burst directly over that point.

Gamma rays usually follow the death of a massive star but these bursts were 88,000 light - years from the nearest galaxy.

The team used the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS) mounted on the Subaru Telescope to thoroughly study the visible wavelength spectrum (Note 1) of the afterglow of a gamma - ray burst (GRB, Note 2), which is a violent explosion of a massive star.

Theoretical models of galaxy evolution predict that present - day galaxies more massive than the Milky Way should be bursting with star formation, but that is not the case.

Type Ic supernovae, the explosions after the core collapse of massive stars that have previously lost their hydrogen and helium envelopes, are particularly interesting because of their link with long - duration gamma ray bursts.

Since bursting to life 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo in 2013, a massive marine volcano called Nishinoshima has erupted dozens of times, spewing red - hot lava that engulfed a neighboring island.

The intense radiation was part of a gamma - ray burst that lasted a minute and which marked the death of a massive star transmogrifying itself into a black hole.

Longer bursts lasting up to a few minutes may be due to the collapse of massive stars to form a black hole or neutron star.

That's the conclusion of a group of physicists who studied the effects of massive cosmic explosions, called gamma ray bursts, on planets.

New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.

Ray Jayawardhana: It is a clue that most likely, these high energy neutrinos come either from jets of particles that are accelerated by super massive black holes at the hearts of galaxies, or from really gigantic stars that explode at the end of their lives that also produce a phenomenon we call gamma ray bursts, which also might accelerate particles to very high speeds and energies.

Recently astronomers have pinned down the location of the bursts and tentatively identified them as massive supernova explosions and neutron stars colliding both with themselves and black holes.

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.

The Dutch and Breakthrough Listen teams suggest that the fast radio bursts may come from a highly magnetized rotating neutron star — a magnetar — in the vicinity of a massive black hole that is still growing as gas and dust fall into it.

The nearly 100 percent polarization of the radio bursts is unusual, and has only been seen in radio emissions from the extreme magnetic environments around massive black holes, such as those at the centers of galaxies.

Most gamma - ray bursts are believed to signal the violent death of rapidly spinning, massive stars.

After a few days or weeks, structures called sporangia develop, which migrate to the skin surface, then burst to release massive new batches of zoospores.

«By picking up the gravitational waves associated with these events, we will be able to access precious information that was previously hidden, such as whether the collision of a star and a black hole has ignited the burst and roughly how massive these objects were before the impact,» explained Dr Ohme, who has focused his research on predicting the exact shape of the gravitational wave signals scientists are expecting to see.

That points to neutron stars — which form when short - lived massive stars in stellar nurseries die — as the source of fast radio bursts.

The new observations support the theory that gamma - ray bursts result from the explosion of massive stars known as hypernovae.

With fireworks bursting and confetti still drifting all around the dancing mob of wedding guests, Catullus announced the final event: a massive attack on Sentinel Hill, an Alliance stronghold.

Gamma ray bursts appear as a directional burst of energy from collapsed massive stars.

Similar results have been found for bursts of gamma rays associated with the explosion of massive stars.