Sentences with phrase «percent of the mass»

Consider this: According to current estimates, normal matter accounts for about 4 percent of the mass of the universe.

Yet you probably know that we can observe only 4 percent of the mass and energy in this universe.

Seven percent of Catholics and 11 percent of mass attenders are converts, according to CARA, and those converts are among the most active Catholics.

Babies tend to lose around five to ten percent of their mass after birth.

The planet sits about 9.6 million kilometers from its star, which has only 8 percent of the mass of the sun.

«Even if only 1 percent of the mass in a filament takes part in the collapse, that's already 100,000 times the mass of the sun, a very good start to making one of these supermassive black holes,» Theuns says.

And what sends them toward Earth is a kind of dark matter, that invisible substance that makes up some 85 percent of the mass in the universe, controlling gravity on the largest scale.

Adding up all the dark forms of ordinary matter (gas clouds, brown dwarfs, black holes, and so on) still leaves 95 percent of the mass in the universe unaccounted for.

Measurements of the bending of light, the motions of galaxies, and the brightness of distant exploding stars have revealed a new truth: Unseen elements, collectively called dark matter and dark energy, account for roughly 96 percent of the mass of the universe.

And this would hold true even if the smaller black hole has only 20 percent of its mass.

Fourteen hours later the films had lost 13 percent of their mass — presumably broken down by enzymes from the worms» stomachs.

They also reported that microbes may account for as much as 90 percent of the mass of all ocean life.

Researchers were astounded when, in the fall of 2007, they discovered that the year - round ice pack in the Arctic Ocean had lost some 20 percent of its mass in just two years, setting a new record low since satellite imagery began documenting the terrain in 1978.

During that reaction, 0.007 percent of the mass of the hydrogen atoms is converted into energy, via Einstein's famous e = mc2 equation.

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.

«If you throw out all the gas and stars, you've only lost 10 percent of the mass,» he says.

The latest, most sensitive searches for the particles thought to make up dark matter — the invisible stuff that may comprise 85 percent of the mass in the cosmos — have found nothing.

Splitting a uranium atom converts only about 0.1 percent of its mass into energy, but mixing matter and antimatter is 100 percent efficient.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A source of rocket fuel beyond Earth's gravity would slash the cost of space travel dramatically; propellant can account for 95 percent of the mass of current launches.

Less than 1 percent of their mass is carbon, and even this material is largely oxidized and hence an insignificant source of methane.

More than 80 percent of this mass is concentrated in three clouds: [KKY2004] 3 (16000 solar), [KKY2004] 4 (12000 solar), and [KKY2004] 12 (7500 solar).

Since this discovery 40 years ago, we have learned that this mysterious substance, which is probably an exotic elementary particle, makes up about 85 percent of the mass in the Universe, leaving only 15 percent to be the ordinary stuff encountered in our everyday lives.

Dark matter is thought to make up some 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

«The elements we measure include the atoms that make up 97 percent of the mass of the human body.»

This statement is certainly true if we assume that the only gravitational force present is that exerted by visible matter, but it is true even if we assume that every galaxy in the cluster, like the Milky Way, is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that contains 90 percent of the mass of the galaxy.»

Baryons are particles of normal or «ordinary» matter (e.g., such as protons and neutrons) that make up more than 99.9 percent of the mass of atoms found in the cosmos.

Typically less than 1 percent of the mass of a molecular cloud becomes stars in one crossing time of the molecular cloud (about 5 106 years).

WIMPs are candidate particles for dark matter, which is invisible material of unknown composition that accounts for 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

«At over 1.4 million kilometers (869,919 miles) wide, the Sun contains 99.86 percent of the mass of the entire solar system: well over a million Earths could fit inside its bulk.

On the other hand, dark matter makes up something like 80 percent of the mass.

Dark matter accounts for roughly 27 percent of the mass and energy in the observable universe, and 85 percent of all mass in the universe.

Planet c may have a minimum mass around 54 + / - 0.7 percent of the mass of Jupiter with a semi-major axis of 3.6 + / -0.1 AUs and a roughly circular orbit (0.10 +0.5 / -0.1) that takes more than 6.5 years (2,391 +100 / -87 days) to complete (Gregory and Fischer, 2010; and Fischer et al, 2001 — in pdf).

The planets» densities, now known much more precisely than before, suggest that some of them could have up to 5 percent of their mass in the form of water — about 250 times more than Earth's oceans.

In our standard model of cosmology, only five percent of the mass - energy budget of the Universe is accounted for by particles that have been detected in Earth - based laboratories.

«While we saw the galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, it had already built more than 15 percent of the mass of our own Milky Way today,» said Pascal Oesch of the Yale University, the lead author of the study.

The convection zone reaches up to the sun's surface, and makes up 66 percent of the sun's volume but only a little more than 2 percent of its mass.

In contrast, ordinary matter makes up only about 15 percent of the mass of the universe.

Next is the radiative zone, which extends from the core to 70 percent of the way to the sun's surface, making up 32 percent of the sun's volume and 48 percent of its mass.

«It has already grown to more than 15 percent of the mass of our own Milky Way today,» said Pascal Oesch, lead author of the study from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

In our standard model of cosmology, only five percent of the mass - energy budget of the Universe is accounted for by particles that have been detected in Earth - based... Read more»

Kepler 62 is a K - 2 dwarf star that is smaller, cooler, only a fifth as bright as our Sun, Sol, while Kepler 69 is a Sun - like G - type dwarf with perhaps 93 percent of its mass and 80 percent of its brightness.

Altogether, the densities suggest that water could account for up to five percent of the mass of some of the planets — by comparison, water only makes up about 0.02 percent of the Earth's mass.

Psyllium Husk is a source of soluble fiber, because 70 - 80 percent of its mass is soluble.