Sentences with phrase «massive objects form»

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The team will also make modifications to the telescope's instrumentation, which will allow scientists to look even further back in time, to before there were enough stars to form galaxies, when the very first population of very massive objects began to blossom.

There's an intriguing twist, too: Jayawardhana and others have shown that young brown dwarfs generally do not have massive protoplanetary disks of gas and dust, which means that if the new object is indeed a planet, it may not have formed the same way planets in our solar system did.

Numerical simulations of collapsing clouds of primordial gas indicate that the first luminous objects to form in the universe were isolated massive stars.

From the Mars - size object that slammed into our planet 4.5 billion years ago, forming the moon, to a bombardment that boiled off early oceans as recently as 2.5 billion years ago, Earth has taken some massive stonings in its lifetime.

They were thought to form through tidal stripping of massive progenitors, until two isolated objects were discovered where massive galaxies performing the stripping could not be identified.

He did not expect to find any massive galaxies earlier than about 9 billion years ago because theoretical models predict that such large objects form last.

If the finding holds up, astronomers may need to rework their theories to explain how such a massive object could have formed so soon after the big bang.

Gravitational lenses form when an intervening massive object, like a galaxy or galaxy cluster, bends the light from more distant galaxies.

Stars typically move with an average speed when they are formed and gradually change speed as they encounter very large objects, such as massive stars and molecular clouds and are affected by their gravity.

Instead of being sucked directly into the massive object, the material first forms a whirling «accretion disk» that closely orbits the central object.

If these dipoles formed near a galaxy — an object with a massive gravitational field — the gravitational dipoles would become polarized and strengthen the galaxy's gravitational field.

Astronomers believe that these are spinning neutron stars (extremely dense objects formed from the collapse of massive stars) with strong magnetic fields that emit radio signals in one direction.

Single black holes form in dense cluster environments and then — because they are the most massive objects — sink to the center of the cluster.

It is a mode of working shared by a number of contemporary sculptors, including Tara Donovan, whose accretions of everyday objects become massive, phenomenological forms.

In the case of this painting the drama is conveyed through the subtle interactions of the seemingly massive forms and the very delicate points of contact between these brutal objects resting on the raw canvas.