These outbursts are thought to be the death cries of
massive stars collapsing to form black holes.
The bursts are believed to be
massive stars collapsing into black holes, among the biggest fireworks in the cosmos.
They are thought to be the result of
massive stars collapsing into black holes.
Pulsars are a type of neutron star that are born in supernova explosions when
massive stars collapse.
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.
These are produced when the core of a very
massive star collapses, and the implosion sends out a blast wave that rips it apart.
Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when
massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any human - made electromagnet.
Neutron stars, the extraordinarily dense stellar bodies created when
massive stars collapse, are known to host the strongest magnetic fields in the universe — as much as a billion times more powerful than any man - made electromagnet.
Because black holes are the gravitational fields left behind when very
massive stars collapse to infinitesimal points, they contain no matter that might radiate light when an isolated pair of them merges.
Since the 1960s some theorists have floated the idea that when
a massive star collapses into a black hole, it gives rise to a new universe.
A black hole arises when the warping around a point grows so severe that that spacetime in the area becomes like a funnel so steep that nothing can climb back out, as may happen when
a massive star collapses.
Scientifically, Hawking's name will forever be tied to black holes, the ultraintense gravitational fields left behind when
massive stars collapse under their own gravity into infinitesimal points.
When
a massive star collapses under its own gravity during a supernova explosion it forms either a neutron star or black hole.
These form when very
massive stars collapse, and are thought to pockmark galaxies including our own, the Milky Way.
GRBs, thought to occur when
massive stars collapse to form black holes, could spew out such particles.
The data indicated that although the energy output was much lower than that seen after
massive stars collapsed, it was too high to be explained by other theories suggesting that the energy derives from quakes on neutron stars.
Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory have spotted a third merger of black holes, the ultraintense gravitational fields left behind when
massive stars collapse.
The black hole came into existence billions of years ago, perhaps as very
massive stars collapsed at the end of their life cycles and coalesced into a single, supermassive object, Ghez said.
Neutron stars are formed in a fraction of a second as
a massive star collapses onto itself, compressing its matter to the density of an atomic nucleus.
Gamma Ray Bursts form when the core of
a massive star collapses or when two neutron stars merge together.
They emit a narrow beam of intense radiation during a supernova when
a massive star collapses into a neutron star or a black hole.
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars, which are immensely dense stars created as a result of
a massive star collapsing in on itself.
This newly - discovered pulsar — named PSR J1930 - 1852 — has the widest orbit ever observed around a neutron star, which is an immensely dense object created as a result of
a massive star collapsing in on itself.
Black holes, which are regions of space - time that are so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull, are formed when
a massive star collapses under its own weight.
Although the analogy is scientifically incorrect and flawed, it is easy to imagine why it originated and continues to persist — these mysterious bodies, formed as a result of
a massive star collapsing in on itself, are so dense, that nothing, not even light can escape their gravitational pull.
Not exact matches
A neutron
star is the crushed core of a
massive star that ran out of fuel,
collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova.
[3] A neutron
star forms when the core of a
massive star (above eight times the mass of the Sun)
collapses.
Stars many times more
massive than our sun often end their lives with a super-nova, a cataclysmic explosion caused by the
collapse of the
star's heavy core.
Stars are born when a cloud of gas hundreds of times more
massive than our Sun begins to
collapse under its own gravity.
Weighty black holes are difficult to explain, because the
stars that
collapsed to form them must have been even more
massive.
Brown dwarfs, less
massive than
stars, are nearly dark, as are
collapsed stars — white dwarfs, neutron
stars, and black holes.
Form a black hole in the usual way, through the
collapse of a
massive star.
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.
On the other hand, early
massive stars could have
collapsed into black holes when they exhausted their nuclear fuel.
Current theories suggest that the seeds of these black holes were the result of either the growth and
collapse of the first generation of
stars in the Universe; collisions between
stars in dense stellar clusters; or the direct
collapse of extremely
massive stars in the early Universe.
When a
massive star runs out of fuel at the end of its life, it
collapses and triggers a violent explosion known as a supernova.
«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.
A CANNIBALISTIC
collapsed star is growing so fat from the partner it is slowly devouring that it is likely to be the most
massive neutron
star yet...
A shock wave from that
collapse will speed outward, violently expelling the
star's outer layers in a
massive explosion known as a supernova.
The discovery of the magnetar's former companion elsewhere in the cluster helps solve the mystery of how a
star that started off so
massive could become a magnetar, rather than
collapse into a black hole.
These titanic blasts are caused by
collapsed stars that snatch matter from their companions until they become so
massive that they detonate.
Astronomers believe that black holes — those mysterious
collapsed remnants of
massive stars — are surrounded by invisible spheres called event horizons.
A neutron
star forms when a
massive star explodes as a supernova, blowing off its outer layers while its core
collapses.
But this presents its own problem, since
stars this
massive are expected to
collapse to form black holes after their deaths, not neutron
stars.
Bersten and her colleagues analyzed the light from the supernova and found that it matches models of the first phase of a supernova called the shock breakout phase, in which a shock wave from a
massive star's
collapse ricochets back from the
star's core and pushes stellar material outward.
Theorists now concur that
massive stars must spew fantastic jets of energy into space when their cores
collapse into black holes, but they disagree about what those jets look like.
When a
massive star goes supernova, its core
collapses into an extremely compact object: either a dense neutron
star or a black hole.
Numerical simulations of
collapsing clouds of primordial gas indicate that the first luminous objects to form in the universe were isolated
massive stars.
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.
They orbit a pulsar — a tiny, rapidly rotating neutron
star left after a
massive star dies and
collapses.