Sentences with phrase «most astronomers believed»

On the external galaxy issue, most astronomers believed that spiral nebulae were external galaxies until Harlow Shapley led one last final assault on this idea.

Most astronomers believe that a quasar is a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, greedily sucking in stars and gas, which become so hot that they give off tremendous amounts of energy.

Most astronomers believe that a third star, unobserved as yet, is disturbing the orbit.

Most astronomers believe that they grew to the enormous sizes that we can observe today by feeding mostly on interstellar gas from its surroundings, which is unable to escape its gravitational pull.

Most astronomers believe that the Universe is only 10 to 15 billion years old and will exist forever.

Most astronomers believe that they grew to the enormous sizes that we can observe today by feeding mostly on interstellar gas from their surroundings, which is unable to escape the immense gravitational pull.

Most astronomers believe that large quantities of some unidentified material pervade the universe.

Cosmic jets, most astronomers believe, arise when a massive object, such as a neutron star or a black hole, draws in material.

Some astronomers argue that there is evidence that quasars are actually relatively close to the earth and therefore are not nearly as bright as most astronomers believe.

Most astronomers believe that the red shift of a quasar is explained by the Doppler effect that the shift is caused by the relative motion of the earth and the quasar away from one another.

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That is exactly how astronomers now believe most black holes form.

After eight decades, most of the universe is still missing from view, forcing astronomers to abandon the notion that seeing is believing.

So far it hasn't identified a source for cosmic neutrinos, but astronomers believe the project and its successors will soon capture particles from some of the most exotic powerhouses in the universe.

There wasn't any good reason to believe in the reality of other universes — at least not until near the beginning of the new millennium, when astronomers made one of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of science.

Most astronomers now believe that the sun was born in a cloud of gas and dust full of other young stars.

But in spite of this, most civilian astronomers believe that tackling the catastrophically large but very rare impacts should be the first priority («How to destroy the doomsday asteroid», New Scientist, 6 June).

Radio waves constitute a portion of the light spectrum — the band that alien technology would most likely use to reach us, many astronomers believe.

[9] While ice is not the only possible cause of these reflective regions, astronomers believe it is the most likely.

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

The most humorous thing about the Flat Earth Society is that they actually believe their own word over the word of certified Geographers, Astronomers, and Scientists.