Sentences with phrase «of nearby matter»

Quasars, discovered in 1963, are extremely distant massive black holes (MBHs) whose gravity pulls in immense amounts of nearby matter.24 The potential energy of all that infalling matter is converted to bright radiation, making quasars the most luminous stable objects in the universe.
As detailed in this video, Laniakea's discovery emerged from measurements of galactic positions and velocities that reveal how galaxies are moving in relation to concentrations of nearby matter and the universe's overall expansion.

Not exact matches

With so much potential, it is only a matter of time before entrepreneurs here in the United States find ways of taking advantage of the new market nearby.
Nearby on Pelham Parkway, standing on the sidewalk in front of Rivera's office while she waited for a bus, Mariana Baez, 61, said she had never heard of the Assemblywoman — or any of her challengers, for that matter.
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.
But inventories of the stars and gas in the nearby universe have revealed only about half the matter that is predicted by cosmological models.
But time will tell, because Randall's idea is testable: Future observations of our galaxy, as well as of tiny galaxies surrounding the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, could find this type of dark matter and illuminate the solar system's route through it.
A new simulation of the orbits of stars after galaxy collisions concludes that invisible cocoons of matter do indeed exist around large nearby galaxies.
Two nearby powerful pulsars aren't responsible for the stream of antimatter positrons snaking past Earth, so dark matter might be behind it after all
He saw the black hole's event horizon, the point beyond which nothing can escape; and an accretion disk, the gathering of matter siphoned from nearby stars.
The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.
The dense core of a nearby collapsed star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that such stars can produce a superfluid of neutrons — a state of matter that can not be created in laboratories on Earth.
In the 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin and Kent Ford used the same basic arguments to show, in much more convincing detail, that spiral galaxies appear to keep their shapes because of the gravitational glue from nearby dark matter.
Scientists can detect black holes by looking at the motion of stars and gas nearby as well as matter accreted from its surroundings.
(Source: «The phase - space structure of nearby dark matter as constrained by the SDSS,» Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017)
No matter how you burn it, you still have to mine it — dumping West Virginia mountaintops into nearby rivers, gouging huge scars into the earth in Montana or Wyoming, and exposing miners to the risk of injury or death.
The discovery of these phenomena in the nearby universe has significant impacts on our understanding of how supermassive black holes are formed and how matter rapidly falls onto them.
The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.
With only wisps of gas nearby, the black hole was essentially «starved» of matter on which to grow.
Supermassive black holes sit in the centers of most galaxies, and when they eat up matter, they also warm up the nearby gas and discharge it in potent, lustrous winds.
«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying neutron stars and we will identify many nearby star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.»
Gravitational lens, matter that through the bending of space in its gravitational field alters the direction of light passing nearby.
They can be «observed,» however, by the effects of their enormous gravitational fields on nearby matter.
His scientific research has focused on dwarf spheroidal galaxies, stellar populations in the Milky Way galaxy and nearby galaxies, globular clusters, chemical evolution of galaxies, and dark matter.
It doesn't matter what kind of sexy fun you want, you can find someone nearby or online that wants the same thing.
Using some sort of weird mental powers, Whitey summons some nearby reindeer to help him, which they do by licking him free until their mouths are coated with fecal matter.
When indoor cats who normally don't go outside become lost, they are almost always hiding somewhere nearby — it's just a matter of figuring out where!
No matter if you're looking for the nearby convenience of golf courses to the seclusion of private beaches, there is an available property that meets and exceeds your needs.
But no matter what time of year you choose to visit Melbourne chances are you'll find the nation's racing capital has a great race - day agenda nearby at either Flemington or Moonee Valley.
Sure, in the company of «Matter,» Eva Hesse's tubes look intriguingly like a set of living - room chairs, a definite improvement compared to the goofy splayed furniture of the psychedelic era on display nearby.
It feels like something straight out of a science fiction film: The room is lined with wallpaper depicting genetically modified biological matter, each with a label detailing its research motivation; nearby, a tank houses glowing fish, «the first GM organism sold as a pet.»
Hiorn's interest in the degenerative brain disease connects to a series of brain - matter works nearby.
As it is a «snapshot» the exact granularity of any given «nearby» station has an impact (some reporting just moments ago, some hours) so picking time of day matters.
By linking changes in coal stockpiles to changes in PM2.5 at nearby monitors, we were able to estimate how much particulate matter is generated per ton of coal stored.
Even among land use characteristics, additional factors can matter a lot, including things like bicycle infrastructure, the presence or absence of sidewalks, the amount of nearby automobile traffic, and the quality of the walking or cycling experience.
That extra CO2 might have been catched within a minute by a nearby tree or 10 years later by the oceans, that doesn't matter, but what matters, it added to the total amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Spend 1 % of your day thinking about what matters most, then look around to see if the nearby materials or products support that.
You based this on the following definition of the 2nd law: «'' When two isolated systems in separate but nearby regions of space, each in thermodynamic equilibrium in itslef, but not in equilibrium with each other t first, are at some time allowed to interact, breaking the isolation that separates the two systems, and they exchange matter or energy, they will eventually reach a mutual thermodynamic equilibrium.»
«When two isolated systems in separate but nearby regions of space, each in thermodynamic equilibrium in itself, but not in equilibrium with each other at first, are at some time allowed to interact, breaking the isolation that separates the two systems, and they exchange matter or energy, they will eventually reach a mutual thermodynamic equilibrium.»
You based this on the following definition of the 2nd law: ««When two isolated systems in separate but nearby regions of space, each in thermodynamic equilibrium in itself, but not in equilibrium with each other at first, are at some time allowed to interact, breaking the isolation that separates the two systems, and they exchange matter or energy, they will eventually reach a mutual thermodynamic equilibrium.»
Temperature is itself an averaging; all molecules do not travel at the same velocity; when we quantify temperature we are seeking the peak of a distribution, not a value which pertains to all matter nearby.
«Sometimes it's a matter of getting you to a nearby city or country that has better care than the place you're in.
The app, still in beta testing, allows users to take an image of a property with their smart phone, and get information on previous sales, tax rolls, foreclosure status, nearby schools and other details, all in a matter of seconds.
Jobs tend to be reliable because the state government needs to function no matter how well the economy is doing; there's often a large university nearby that provides employment opportunities, services and inexpensive things to do; and big businesses set up shop to take advantage of an educated workforce and proximity to the capitol.
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