Sentences with phrase «massive than the sun»

Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it's sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space.

Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

Astronomers previously thought that this type of «ultraluminous X-ray source» was likely to be made up of black holes five to 50 times more massive than our sun, radiating energy as they pull in nearby matter.

Or maybe, others said, the first stars were strange, short - lived and supermassive giants, far brighter and hundreds or even a thousand times more massive than our sun.

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.

This simulated image shows the first half - second of an explosion of a star 15 times more massive than the sun.

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust.

With the current data, astronomers can't really tell much about the individual stars in the galaxy, but such stars are generally much more massive than our sun.

Even more remarkably, stars in the throes of birth also seem to exhale giant, peanut - shaped bubbles of gas, called outflows, 100 times more massive than our sun.

Infrared observations of the neutron star, however, reveal no current binary companions that are more massive than the sun.

The existence of black holes tens of times more massive than our Sun was confirmed recently by the observation of gravitational waves, produced by the merger of pairs of massive black holes, with the LIGO interferometer.

First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf - Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun.

Indeed, the few close - in brown dwarfs that have been found orbit stars that are hotter and more massive than our sun, and spin faster.

HD 219134 is an orange Type K star somewhat cooler, smaller and less massive than our Sun.

According to theory, all or nearly all of them began as supergiants hundreds of times more massive than the sun.

The cloud is 120 times more massive than the sun, is packed within a relatively small volume, and has an extremely low temperature of barely 18 degrees above absolute zero.

* Correction 4:46 p.m., 21 August: The Phoenix cluster is 2500 trillion times more massive than the sun, not 25,000 trillion times more massive, as previously written.

Supermassive black holes, which can be hundreds of thousands to billions of times more massive than the sun, may be found at the center of most galaxies.

Stars more massive than our sun are hotter, and blaze with radiation, so their habitable zones are farther out.

Imagine a star more massive than the sun yet hardly larger than a small city.

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

For example, a neutron star 60 percent more massive than the sun can't have a radius smaller than 10.7 kilometers, they determine.

Using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the researchers identified a disc - shaped bright ring of dust around a star only slightly more massive than the sun, located 360 light years away in the Centaurus constellation.

According to this model, the violent wind that creates a planetary nebula is also the engine that transforms a bloated red giant into the burnt - out cinder of a white dwarf, a metamorphosis common to all stars of low and intermediate mass — stars up to eight times more massive than the sun.

As a star much more massive than the sun contracts to the size of an asteroid — or even smaller if it becomes a black hole — it creates unimaginable densities, temperatures, and energy.

The planet, which is 1.25 times as massive as Jupiter, lies 2300 light years from Earth and orbits a bloated, ageing star slightly less massive than the sun.

One, however, contains a unique blend of magnesium, calcium, and titanium that could only have come from the titanic explosion of a star that was perhaps 15 times more massive than our sun.

The two stars in the system — one about three times more massive than the sun and the other a little less massive — are so close to each other that one orbit takes only 3 days.

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clo... read more

He estimates the progenitor of 3C 58 began life as a blue star of spectral type O that was 20 to 30 times more massive than the sun.

Comparison with the SXS simulations revealed that the signal was from the collision of two hefty black holes 29 and 36 times more massive than the sun and located 1.3 billion light - years from Earth.

Directly imaged planets, such as those discussed by Kevin Wagner in a previous blog post, are mainly discovered around stars more massive than the sun (A or F stars)...

The discovery was made as part of a program to detect supermassive black holes, millions or billions of times more massive than the Sun, that are not at the centers of galaxies.

«Failed - Jupiter planets, like OGLE -2005-BLG-169Lb, are predicted to be more common than Jupiters, especially around stars less massive than the sun, according to the preferred theory of planet formation.

MBHs are millions to 21 billion times more massive than the Sun.

The study calculated that the star that exploded was at least 50 times more massive than the sun and probably much larger.

«[A massive black hole, 21,000,000 times more massive than the Sun, lies at the center of a small galaxy.]

While the jets from galaxy cores are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes millions of times more massive than the Sun, the closer «microquasars» are powered by much smaller black holes or by neutron stars only a few times more massive than the sun.

NASA Zeta Doradus is a yellowish star that is just a little hotter, brighter, and more massive than our Sun, Sol.

LISA is tuned to detect lower frequencies and longer wavelengths produced by mergers between black holes millions of times more massive than the sun.

The black hole observed by NuSTAR, called Markarian 335 (Mrk 335), is 10 million times more massive than the sun and lies 324 million light - years away, researchers said.

The luminous cores of most if not all galaxies contain a supermassive black hole, which is millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun.

It is a solar - like main - sequence star with a similar yellowish colour, [31] whose stellar classification is spectral type G2 V. From the determined mutual orbital parameters, Alpha Centauri A is about 10 percent more massive than the Sun, with a radius about 22 percent larger.

When the 31 solar mass and 19 solar mass black holes merged, two solar masses worth of black hole mass were converted into gravitational wave energy, which explains why the object that the observatory detected was only 49 times more massive than the sun, not 51, the authors explained.

They pack the mass of an entire star (more massive than our sun) into their tiny volumes and possess intense magnetic fields.

None of this behavior is expected for normal stars slightly more massive than the Sun.

The black hole, which is in the center of the quasar ULAS J1342 +0928, is about 800 million times more massive than our sun.

(Some were quasars which are powered by black holes, billions of times more massive than our Sun!)

Astronomers find evidence of enormous black hole one hundred thousand times more massive than the sun in a gas cloud near the galaxy's centre.