Sentences with phrase «millions to billions»

Researchers have found more than 20 such families, with ages from tens of millions to billions of years.

Social media gives you the potential to reach millions to billions of people.

People with hundreds of millions to billions of dollars at their disposal, and thank you for listening by the way.

This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun.

The cost of rewriting the Endangered Species Act alone «could range in millions to billions of dollars,» according to one recent article in the journal Taxon.

The Lightning Network is capable of process millions to billions of transactions per second.

Supermassive black holes with masses millions to billions of times that of the sun are thought to lurk at the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies.

They might between the three of them have saved a few hundred million to a billion Euros for their taxpayers; but this comes at the expense of the ability of the EU to tackle some of the important problems Europe has to deal with.

MOUNT TREMBLANT, QUEBEC — Black holes seem to come in two sizes: small ones with a few times the mass of our sun, and gigantic ones millions to billions of times bigger (ScienceNOW, 24 March 2003).

The death of stars can produce small black holes — with masses ranging from about three to 100 times the mass of the sun — but such stellar - mass black holes are tiny compared with the behemoths at the centers of galaxies, measuring millions to billions of solar masses.

Most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have a black hole at their center, holding millions to billions of solar masses.

«The high - energy emission and wind from the pulsar basically heats and blows off the normal star's material and, over millions to billions of years, can eat away the entire star,» Alice Harding, an astrophysicist at NASA, said in a statement.

Corporate credit cards are typically issued to businesses with revenues of several million to billions of dollars, and the company, not an individual, is liable for any nonpayment issues.

A few months ago, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said investing $ 500 million to a billion still wouldn't be enough to compete with an MMORPG like World of Warcraft.

The following catastrophes have cost U.S. insurance companies millions to billions of dollars as policyholders have filed claims to recover their losses:

McDonald's has gone from serving thousands to millions to billions worldwide.

The Network's scalability should allow it to process millions to billions of transactions per second across the network.

Therefore, planets are much cooler than stars — and being also much smaller, planets are typically ten million to a billion times fainter than their host stars.

Now what are the statistics that the conditions were just perfect for «evolution» to happen naturally and continue from simple creature to complex creature for million to billions of yr?

These problems occur on almost inconceivably longer timescales: the sun will be stable for hundreds of millions to billions of years; the dinosaurs died 66 million years ago.

This network is capable of millions to billions of transactions per second.

Furthermore, 20th century lava flows often register dates in the millions to billions of years.

Throw in Dodd - Frank costing banks anywhere from hundreds of million to billions in compliance cost and that is your problem.

That is enough to render cryovolcanoes unrecognizable in hundreds of millions to billions of years, suggesting there could have been other cryovolcanoes on Ceres, according to the new study.

If an alien civilization is looking at us from far away, and it knows something about chemistry, it will know that we have millions to billions of times more oxygen than we should [if there were no life on Earth].

Based on the amount of stretch, the team knew that EDGES measured light released when the universe was a few hundred million to a billion years old.

With this technology we studied the motion of microscopic two - dimensional electron crystals along a liquid helium surface and saw no difference between the movement of large electron crystals, on the scale of millions to billions of electrons, and crystals as small as a few thousands of electrons, when theoretically, differences should exist.»

But because the black holes are hidden at the centers of galaxies tens of millions to billions of light - years away and give off no light of their own, they have not been easy to study directly.

But the new galaxies were all born only 100 million to a billion years ago.

But the optical scanners and imaging software needed to interpret the millions to billions of colored blips and convert them into a gene sequence keep costs high.

Jennifer Doudna and Samuel Sternberg used a combination of single - molecule imaging and bulk biochemical experiments to show how the RNA - guided Cas9 enzyme is able to locate specific 20 - base - pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long.

To explain the observed energy output, the black holes in active galaxies must have masses of a million to a billion times that of the Sun.

These massive objects can be millions to billions the mass of our sun and appear to be as ancient as the galaxies themselves.

These black holes are supermassive — millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun.

This network is capable of millions to billions of transactions per second.

The investment required to build a general - purpose voice assistant is hundreds of millions to billions of dollars.

SegWit also lays the foundation for future Bitcoin development efforts, including the implementation of Lightning Network, which will allow the Bitcoin network to process millions to billions of transactions per second.

With Lightning, Bitcoin will be capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network, with fees less than 1 satoshi via the Lightning Network.