Sentences with phrase «object known»

The only object we know of that can be sufficiently luminous across this wide an energy range is a black hole.

The only influence such objects know are those of push or pull from other objects that may set them in motion.

So imagine a world in which man - made objects know where they are and can communicate that information to other self - locating, communicating objects too.

In objects known as bursters, a neutron star's magnetic field suspends the gas until the accumulated weight crushes the field temporarily and the falling gas emits a sudden burst of X rays.

These densest objects known in the Universe typically are born spinning very rapidly; the newly detected pulsar, known as PSR J0205 +6449, presently rotates 15 times every second.

Neutron stars and black holes are the most compact objects we know about.

Quasars are believed to be powered by accretion of material onto supermassive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies, making these luminous versions of the general class of objects known as active galaxies.

Astronomers can detect quasars from the farthest corners of the cosmos, making quasars among the most distant objects known.

The stellar corpses — highly dense objects known as white dwarfs — were spotted inside a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula.

In principle, measuring astronomical parallax is easy: measure the position of an object in the sky relative to other objects known to be much further away (eg.

These minute dimensions have to be «compactified» in a specific way to reproduce the physics we observe, and Strominger and his colleagues determined what that scrunched - up shape had to be: a six - dimensional mathematical object known as a Calabi - Yau space.

«Quarks» may be source of quasars» energy — The mysterious nuclear particles called «quarks,» which have not yet been detected but might nevertheless be basic building blocks of the atom's core, could be the source of the tremendous energy generated by the puzzling star - like objects known as quasars....

In January 2019, it is scheduled to visit another, much smaller Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69.

Meteorites are among the oldest objects we know about - formed about billion years ago.

These eventually disperse and leave behind hot, compact objects known as white dwarfs.

You find yourself on a quest to find a mysterious object known as the Order of the Stone in the hopes of saving the world from evil.

Extraordinary examples of handmade stone tools, some of the first aesthetically - conceived objects known to humankind, will be included in the exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone which opens Jan. 27 at the Nasher Sculpture Center.

In amongst the swirling mass of stars at its heart lie many intriguing systems, including X-ray sources, variable stars, vampire stars, unexpectedly bright «normal» stars known as blue stragglers, and tiny objects known as millisecond pulsars, small dead stars that rotate astonishingly quickly.

But he's up against the immovable object known as the New York Legislature — and the deep - pocketed special interests that hold sway there.

Neutron stars are the most extreme and fascinating objects known to exist in our universe: Such a star has a mass that is up to twice that of the sun but a radius of only a dozen kilometres: hence it has an enormous density, thousands of billions of times that of the densest element on Earth.

The «real science» part came from tiny semiconductor objects known as quantum dots, which confine electrons to a small space.

The four Galilean moons, the first objects known to orbit another planet, are named for Galileo Galilei, who is credited with discovering them in 1610.

Even more intriguing is the possibility that the Pistol is a missing link between ordinary large stars and a handful of exotic, superhot but smaller objects known as Wolf - Rayet stars.

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 quasars.

The beauty of the Standard Model is in its symmetry; mathematicians describe its symmetries with objects known as Lie groups.

In both cases, depending on the initial mass and temperature of the exploding star, the supernova will create either a tiny but extremely dense object called a neutron star or an infinitesimal but even more massive object known as a black hole.

The defunct star once held at least twice the mass necessary to create a black hole when it exploded as a supernova, yet somehow only an extremely magnetic, asteroid - sized object known as a magnetar remains.

The final stages of life for a star like our Sun result in the star blowing its outer layers out into the surrounding space, forming objects known as planetary nebulae in a wide range of beautiful and striking shapes.

Swirling objects known as magnetic vortices and skyrmions can be miniaturized without sacrificing mobility, a KAUST - led international research team has found.

With 248 dimensions, E8 is the largest, most complicated and most beautiful of five idiosyncratic objects known as the exceptional simple Lie groups.

The polaron itself is a collective — a unified object known as a quasiparticle — that incorporates properties of the original particle and its environment.

These techniques aim to quantify relationships in complex networks by graphing the connections, or «edges», between individual objects known as «nodes».

Magnetars are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe.

«Dwarf spheroidal galaxies like Sculptor are some of the most dark matter dominated objects we know of in the Universe,» says Helmi.

Astronomers using NASA's Fermi gamma ray observatory found five bright objects known as blazars whose light has been traveling through space for some 13 billion years, making them the most distant blazars found yet.

Astrophysicists are hugely interested in black holes, as they're the most compact, gravitationally dominant objects known in the universe and, therefore, an extreme test for relativity.

[62] Objects known as «B (e)» or «B [e]» stars possess distinctive neutral or low ionisation emission lines that are considered to have «forbidden mechanisms», undergoing processes not normally allowed under current understandings of quantum mechanics.

The neutron star inside the Crab Nebula may have four magnetic poles, rather than the usual two — unlike any other astronomical object known.

Pluto is the only known trans - Neptunian object known to possess a tenuous atmosphere.

The golden veil of light cloaks a young stellar object known only as IRAS 14568 - 6304 in the Circinus molecular cloud complex.

All of the fuss is over the Mad Titan searching for the powerful cosmic objects known as the Infinity Stones to complete his golden gauntlet and imbue himself with unbelievable power.

Most Staffords go through a long puppyhood of relentless chewing; their taste for chewing objects knows no safe bounds, and may include common household objects dangerous to gnaw on such as electric cords.

Another unique thing about Blade Mode is that while you're carving up your enemies, a quick command advising you to press the circle button pops up, this allows you pull out of your opponent a blue object known as Zandatsu, which automatically replenishes your health and blade mode meter.

A series of sculptures deriving inspiration from American craft objects known as «memory jugs,» «spirit jugs,» or «ugly jars.»

Over coffee the following morning, one of the other faculty members in the department, Corin Hewitt, excitedly wanted to know if I had heard of a beloved object known as the «slant step.»

In 1968, brothers Wallace and Russ Berrie manufactured and sold a line of kitsch plastic objects known as Sillisculpts.

Craig - Martin's later works have used a stylised drawing technique often depicting everyday household objects and sometimes incorporating art references, such as objects known from their use in Dada artworks.

Gober's X Playpen (1987) references a familiar domestic object known to promise security, but has instead been drastically changed to amplify latent anxieties about childhood and the home.