Sentences with phrase «massive nearby object»

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Anything with mass warps the nearby space, so as light passes near that massive object, its path bends, following the warps.

If massive objects curved space itself, as Einstein proposed, then they should bend nearby rays of light, as well.

The brightest object in a nearby star cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.

Gravitational lenses occur when very massive objects — such as clusters of galaxies — warp spacetime around them, causing light (and anything else) traveling nearby to take a curved path.

Fingers pointed to a massive object nearby called the Kleinmann - Low (KL) nebula protostar, which is about 15 solar masses in size, and is still growing by gulping gas from the disc of gas surrounding it.

Quasars, discovered in 1963, are extremely distant massive black holes (MBHs) whose gravity pulls in immense amounts of nearby matter.24 The potential energy of all that infalling matter is converted to bright radiation, making quasars the most luminous stable objects in the universe.

But researchers say they have now confirmed such an object in the nearby galaxy M82 — a black hole about as massive as 400 suns.

Einstein Rings Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published in 1916, predicted that massive objects, such as stars, could bend light rays passing nearby.