Sentences with phrase «of mass of»

Then the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than that of the sum of the mass of its components.

Scholz's star is actually a binary system formed by a small red dwarf, with about 9 % of the mass of the Sun, around which a much less bright and smaller brown dwarf orbits.

This will then turn into a «fruiting body» made up of a mass of spores on top of a stalk.

The size and spacing of the harmonics indicate that 30 percent of the mass of the universe is made up of mysterious dark matter, and another 65 percent is in the form of dark energy.

Although enormous on a human scale, the LMC contains less than one tenth of the mass of the Milky Way, and spans just 14 000 light - years — by contrast, the Milky Way covers some 100 000 light - years.

The origin of the moon involves a really big thing hitting the Earth, a giant impact of something the size of Mars, which is about 10 percent of the mass of Earth.

This dark behemoth is a whopping one - eighth of the mass of all the stars in CID - 947, a galaxy in the constellation Sextans whose light takes about 11.8 billion years to reach Earth.

Astrophysicists put the upper limit of the mass of the neutrino at 0.28 electron volt, based on the distribution of galaxies according to the 3 - D Mega Z map.

In the supernova explosions that precede the formation of black holes, some of the mass of the star is blown off, carrying away part of the total angular momentum of the star.

Admittedly it is still very small — less than a ten - billionth of the mass of the smallest cell in the human body (a sperm cell; 10 - 13 kg).

So I start by describing how we understand the origin of mass of ordinary matter, for normal matter, the stuff you and I are made out of, really starting from constituents that have zero mass, realizing Einstein's dream of reducing mass to energy explaining how mass arises from energy, which is a more basic concept.

If they exist, they could be a major constituent of the dark matter which is thought to make up most of the mass of the Universe.

So cosmologists believe that most of the mass of the Universe must be composed of invisible dark matter.

In other words, the losses of mass of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will intensify — just like the models predict.»

Dark matter Invisible material thought to make up the majority of the mass of the universe.

We can even take all our data on particle physics data and interpret them in terms of the mass of a hypothetical Higgs boson.

Observing the random course of a particle suspended in a fluid led to the first accurate measurement of the mass of the atom.

The results show that (i) the proteins and RNA are intermingled, with neither component dominating at the core or the periphery, and (ii) the spatial distribution of protein and RNA is asymmetrical, with a separation between their centers of mass of about 25 angstroms.

Dark matter is thought to account for about 80 percent of the mass of the universe.

He adds that as a result of the discoveries, «The traditional vision of some mass of hapless lemmings — scrounging for whatever they can pinch from the side of a street, or huddled around a bowl of gruel — needs to be replaced by a higher fare and standard of living, at least for the urbanites in Pompeii.

A long - standing challenge in physics has been finding evidence for dark matter, the stuff presumed to make up a substantial chunk of the mass of the universe.

Only 10 percent of the mass of the cloud, on average, is converted through gravitational collapse into stars.

The researchers have observed 35 asteroid pairs that they think formed in this way, with the offspring less than 60 % of the mass of the parent.

Because we have such amazing accuracy we were able to see that between these two seas the elevation varied smoothly about 11 meters, relative to the center of mass of Titan, consistent with the expected change in the gravitational potential.

In particular, the scientists studied the formation of a mass of cells called a blastema that serves as a reservoir for regenerating tissues.

The Hubble data indicate that they are «wobbling» around the centre of mass of each cluster long after the galaxy cluster has returned to a relaxed state following a merger.

It weighs about 1000 billion times as much as the Sun, and accounts for 90 per cent of the mass of the Milky Way.

On the other hand we have tiny Earth, a mere 318th of the mass of Jupiter.

The stuff we see in space — stars, planets and gas — only makes up about 18 percent of the mass of the universe.

Most of the mass of the tree root systems studied was in the stumps and thick underground roots.

According to him, between 75 % and 80 % of the mass of nanoparticles measured in this study corresponds to organic compounds (carbon in different forms) emitted by motor vehicles.

And most puzzling of all, where is the «missing matter» thought to make up 80 percent of the mass of the universe?

Staffan Normark: And the Academy Citation runs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles and which recently was confirmed through the discoery of the predicted fundamental particle by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

The team also determined the gas infall rate to be a millionth of the mass of the Sun per year, with a speed of 1 km per second.

An ancient population, estimated to be 1 % of the mass of the bulge, has been detected kinematically detected in the inner Milky Way and does not cylindrically.

Roughly a tenth of the mass of these holes would go into gamma rays.

Normally, you only see quantum - mechanical jiggling when you look at objects the size of atoms and molecules, but we are moving into a domain where we see the centers of mass of these big mirrors jiggle quantum - mechanically.

Water makes up to about 20 percent of the mass of some of these asteroids.

Having a mass of only less than seven per cent of the mass of the Sun, they are unable to create sufficient pressure and heat in their interiors to ignite hydrogen - to - helium fusion, a fundamental physical mechanism by which stars generate radiation.

Kks3 is located in the southern sky in the direction of the constellation of Hydrus and its stars have only one ten - thousandth of the mass of the Milky Way.

Just over one third of the mass of the Sun, it is part of a triple star system known as Gliese 667 (also referred to as GJ 667), 22 light - years away in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).

Most curiously, each giant black hole appears to contain exactly 0.2 % of the mass of its galaxy's bulge of stars.

It may be that what we call our self, or the «I» in our perception of self, is made not of patterns of electrochemical synaptic logic (neurons chattering) but rather the aggregate experience of the mass of glial cells, each one contributing its particle of consciousness to the whole.

Estimates of the mass of the halo, which may extend beyond the LMC as far as 600 000 light - years from our Galaxy, are somewhat uncertain.

The vast polar structure — a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way — is at the center of a tug - of - war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

The element is the most common on Earth, composing around 46 % of the mass of Earth's crust, and is the third most common element in the universe.

Published in Physical Review Letters, the study «provides the most precise estimate of the mass of the Higgs boson yet known and is the result of collaboration between two teams that operate detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe's particle physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland.»

The ratio of the mass of the impactor to the mass of the comet is about the same as the ratio of the mass of a mosquito to that of a fully loaded Boeing 767.

Dark matter is thought to make up 90 per cent of the mass of the universe, but till now no one has ever seen it, let alone identified what it consists of.

«We don't have any alternative explanation for the dark energy; we don't have any alternative explanation for the smallness of the mass of the electron; we don't have any alternative explanation for many properties of particles.