Sentences with phrase «of strong gravitational»

The degree of broadening implies that the gas is moving around at high speed, a result of the strong gravitational field of the black hole.

At once scientists seized on double pulsars as a way to subject General Relativity to its hardest test yet in the presence of a strong gravitational field.

LIGO announces the first discovery of strong gravitational waves from a collision of two black holes

Images Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the strong gravitational lens ER -0047-2808.

«AutoLens has demonstrated its capabilities with this stunning image of a strong gravitational lens system captured by the Hubble Space Telescope,» said Nightingale, who developed AutoLens together with his colleague, Dr Simon Dye.

The existence of strong gravitational waves would rule out many competing theories of quantum gravity and indicate the correct path forward.

The yellow lines are regions of strong gravitational interactions around the black holes.

Around a black hole, however, the effect would be much more noticeable because of the stronger gravitational field.

Not exact matches

Apple has the strongest «gravitational field of loyalty,» Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin said.

I have come to believe that humans tend towards power - centric arrangements — a strong gravitational anchor of security.

I believe that the gravitational pull of Jesus is so strong, that He pulls all people after Him, whether they call themselves «Christian» or not (No, I am not a universalist).

Some include: The strong nuclear constant, the weak nuclear constant, the gravitational force constant, the electromagnetic constant, Ration of electron to proton mass, ration of protons to electrons, expansion rate of the universe, entropy level of the universe, mass density of the universe, velocity of light, etc..

The only forces I know of are the gravitational force, the electromagnetic force, and the strong and the weak force.

The resulting theory, though founded on quite different principles and developed in an independent fashion from Einstein's theory, nevertheless gives predictions that are identical to the latter's, within observable limits, for each of the four classic tests of gravitational theories (i.e., precession of the perihelion of Mercury, redshift of light emitted by a massive body, the bending of light - beams in a strong gravitational field, and the apparent slowing of the speed of light propagation near massive bodies).

Its strong gravitational pull comes from its axis: a commitment to gospel witness and the maintenance of historic Christianity.

By studying gravitational waves, they can now explore extreme conditions in which the energy in an object's gravitational field accounts for most or all of its mass — the realm of strong gravity so far explored by theorists alone.

Its gravitational tug pushes and pulls large bodies of water, and when the moon is full, it's also at a position in its monthly orbit to be at its strongest.

The doomed galaxies would have been pulled apart like taffy if they plunged through the center of the galaxy cluster where gravitational tidal forces are strongest.

The other star is an expanding red giant, with a bloated outer shell of hydrogen that gets whisked away by the strong gravitational pull of its partner.

The finding is the first direct confirmation of gravitational waves as well as the strongest evidence to date that black holes exist.

Locked in a deadly embrace, two white dwarf stars may be the strongest source of gravitational waves now flooding our galaxy.

Although Einstein came back around to accept the existence of gravitational waves, he still didn't expect they'd be strong enough to detect.

They find that a spinning naked singularity turns out to be a strong gravitational lens, magnifying the light from background stars more than an ordinary black hole and producing a distinctive pattern of images.

However the effect is subtle, and the shape of a void is also affected by the motions of galaxies caused by strong gravitational interactions.

But if two exoplanets orbiting the same star have a strong gravitational influence on each other, the time of transit is not periodic, and astronomers can use this information to more accurately calculate their masses.

The region of space around an object where a satellite could orbit indefinitely is called the Hill sphere, roughly defined as where the object's gravitational field is stronger than that exerted by another object outside the sphere.

Because of that equivalence principle, then, the same must be true for gravity: As a gravitational field grows stronger, time slows even more.

Before now, the strongest evidence of gravitational waves came indirectly from observations of superdense, spinning neutron stars called pulsars.

Not only does the axis precess (every 51,000 years), but the proximity of Jupiter offers a strong gravitational forcing function that modifies the eccentricity of its orbit and the obliquity (tilt) of the spin axis.

«Speed - dependent attraction governs what goes on at the heart of midge swarms: New study reveals swarm cohesion stems from an adaptive behavior, where the faster individual midges fly, the stronger the gravitational - like force they experience.»

A sun - size star approaching within 30 solar radii of the monster, they calculate, would be ripped apart by the black hole's gravitational pull, which would be far stronger on the near side of the star than on the far side.

All you would have to do is use an extremely strong gravitational field, like that of a black hole, to bend space - time.

But only some of the most massive astrophysical events, such mergers of black holes and neutron stars, can produce gravitational waves strong enough to be detected on earth.

Scientists have speculated that physics as we know it could break down in the presence of such a strong gravitational force.

Surprisingly, such observations show that the sun also causes semidiurnal tides in the atmosphere, which are more than 20 times stronger, although the solar gravitational forcing is less than half that of the moon.

If detected, Chen's effect — a derivative of the gravitational Faraday effect — would provide strong evidence of the correctness of Einstein's general relativity theory in the «strong - field regime,» or an environment in close proximity to a black hole.

That simple model should generate strong gravitational waves, which would leave their own distinctive imprint on the polarisation of the microwave background.

Although the distances between the gas condensations are now several times the size of our solar system, the authors estimate the gravitational attraction between them is sufficiently strong that the new stars will comprise a quadruple star system.

Four years of data track the spin precession of a pulsar orbiting a second pulsar, providing a positive test of general relativity in a strong gravitational field.

It requires sunfulls of dust and strong gravitational crunches to ignite the nuclear furnace that powers them.

But the evidence was not strong enough to rule out other possible causes of death, such as the gravitational collapse of a massive star's core.

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity works, the two bodies excite strong ripples in spacetime — gravitational waves — as they spiral towards each other.

The duration and strength of such a «gravitational microlensing» event could reveal not only a rogue planet's existence but also its mass, as bigger worlds tend to create longer, stronger amplifications of a background star's light.

If W exceeds 1.0, the gravitational pull of its mass will be strong enough to put its expansion into reverse so that it will some day collapse.

Black holes — massive objects in space with gravitational forces so strong that not even light can escape them — come in a variety of sizes.

Consisted of the imploded core remaining after a giant star explodes, black holes are a kind of cosmic object whose core contracted to form a singularity, a point with infinite density and the strongest gravitational attraction known to exist.

«We are directly measuring the motion of matter in a strong gravitational field near to a black hole,» says Ingram.

As the gravitational energy of the material is released, the innermost part of the disk is heated up to a temperature higher than 10 million degrees, which causes it to emit strong X-rays.

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts that light coming from a strong gravitational field gets stretched out, or «redshifted.»

A number of places in the Indian Ocean, such as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles, Maldives, and Lakshadweep islands, are known to display a slightly stronger gravitational field than expected.