Sentences with phrase «massive objects in»

The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.

Standing outside one of these massive objects in the universe, for instance, there's only darkness — the black hole's gravity is so strong that not even light escapes.

The galaxy, EGS - zs8 - 1, was originally identified based on its particular colors in images from Hubble and Spitzer and is one of the brightest and most massive objects in the early universe.

So - called intermediate - mass black holes fill a gap in astronomer's knowledge of the most massive objects in the universe.

The Earth and moon can serve as giant detectors for ripples in the fabric of space - time known as gravitational waves, which are given off by stars, black holes and other massive objects in deep space, researchers say.

General relativity predicts that two massive objects in a tight orbit around each other will spiral in, slowly at first and then faster until they merge, distorting space - time in perturbations that ripple in all directions.

Despite this, gravity has an influence over huge distances and is the driving force behind the motions of the most massive objects in the cosmos.

Black holes — massive objects in space with gravitational forces so strong that not even light can escape them — come in a variety of sizes.

Einstein had proposed in 1915 that gravity would cause light to bend around massive objects in space, such as stars or galaxies.

That means massive objects in space can act as lenses, focusing the light from objects even farther from Earth.

Giant clouds of molecular gas — the most massive objects in our galaxy — are the birthplaces of stars.

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound together by gravity.

It is one of the brightest and most massive objects in the early universe.

Much as hair collects around a bathtub drain, the most massive objects in the Milky Way tend to spiral downward toward the center.

They tell us that there is a central, massive object in the outflow origin, with a surrounding accretion disc.»

The most massive object in our immediate vicinity, named The Great Attractor, helps bring matter toward it, while helping make voids even emptier.

The start of a jet in the distant galaxy J1415 +1320 was magnified by a massive object in the foreground, closer to Earth.

Dawn spent nearly 14 months orbiting Vesta, the second most massive object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, from 2011 to 2012.

The material circles the massive object in an accretion disk before being pulled into it.

Not exact matches

When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't travel in a perfect circle around the larger one.

«With the majority of Victorian residents objecting to the $ 300 increase in their cost of living and massive inconvenience flowing from the container deposit scheme, it begs the question why are we even considering it?

If an object is massive enough, it can actually create detectable gravitational waves, or ripples in space - time, which scientists saw for the first time earlier this year.

In his framework, the three dimensions of space and time are woven together to create a four - dimensional fabric, which acts as the source of gravity because it bends and warps around massive objects, like stars.

[1] The ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves are created by moving masses, but only the most intense waves, created by rapid speed changes of very massive objects, can be detected by the current generation of detectors.

Then, effectively by accident, Batygin and Brown noticed that if they ran their simulations with a massive planet in an anti-aligned orbit — an orbit in which the planet's closest approach to the sun, or perihelion, is 180 degrees across from the perihelion of all the other objects and known planets — the distant Kuiper Belt objects in the simulation assumed the alignment that is actually observed.

He had solved Einstein's equations of general relativity for the first time, and shown what happens to space - time inside and outside a massive object — in this case, a perfectly spherical, non-spinning star.

The object is located in the center of a colorful cloud of material consisting of the remains of an ancient star that exploded as a massive supernova.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

«In a universe with no dark energy, massive objects would just keep growing, which results in more gravitational lensing,» says Sudeep Das of the University of California, BerkeleIn a universe with no dark energy, massive objects would just keep growing, which results in more gravitational lensing,» says Sudeep Das of the University of California, Berkelein more gravitational lensing,» says Sudeep Das of the University of California, Berkeley.

This «gravitational lensing» causes the supernova's light to appear brighter and sometimes in multiple locations, if the light rays travel different paths around the massive object.

Planet ejections occur as a result of a close planetary encounter in which one of the objects accelerates so much that it breaks free from the massive gravitational pull of the Sun.

All the previous gravitational - wave detections since the first in September 2015 had been the result of two merging black holes — objects much more massive than a neutron star — which have left only gravitational waves as fleeting clues of their merger.

A dense atmosphere like Earth's is relatively rare in our solar system because an object has to be sufficiently massive to have enough gravity to hold onto it.

For the first time, scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned - out remains of a compact star.

Einstein predicted that the movement of massive objects changing the curvature of space - time should produce waves in that fabric.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

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.

If HERA succeeds, this radio telescope array in South Africa could reveal new information about the slow roast of universal reionization, the identities of the very first massive objects, the evolution of the cosmic ingredients list and perhaps even clues about the mechanism behind the formation of the first massive objects.

But soon after astronomers in the Massive Compact Halo Object (MACHO) survey team discovered MACHO -97-BLG on 19 June 1997, they realized the object's flickering was too complex to result from a single - starObject (MACHO) survey team discovered MACHO -97-BLG on 19 June 1997, they realized the object's flickering was too complex to result from a single - starobject's flickering was too complex to result from a single - star lens.

Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that gravitational waves — ripples in spacetime — emanate from accelerating massive objects.

The concept of an object so massive that not even light can escape the pull of its gravity was first mooted way back in 1783.

Whereas Newtonian gravity was a mysterious force that somehow emanated from mass and acted instantaneously over long distances, in Einstein's view a massive object simply curves the space - time fabric around it.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

Sometimes that can result in a faraway object appearing distorted or even multiple times around a nearer massive object, like a menu viewed through the bottom of a wine glass.

Minute tremors in space itself, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, are generated when massive objects accelerate.

In the early universe, galaxies collided relatively often and their black holes sometimes merged, growing more massive in the process and sometimes birthing hugely energetic objects known as quasarIn the early universe, galaxies collided relatively often and their black holes sometimes merged, growing more massive in the process and sometimes birthing hugely energetic objects known as quasarin the process and sometimes birthing hugely energetic objects known as quasars.

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.

Another, much smaller effect is gravitomagnetism, or frame - dragging, in which the spin of a massive object tugs space - time in the direction of its rotation, like a spoon twisted in honey (see «A twist in space - time»).

Black holes are massive objects that have collapsed in on themselves, creating a gravitational suction so intense that their insides become cut off from the rest of the universe.

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.