Sentences with phrase «powerful jets of»

They float orbs around 70 cm in diameter up to 5metres high on powerful jets of air.
Powerful jets of water immediately rinse the excess aroma away.
Supermassive black holes can be relatively tranquil or they can flare up and drive incredibly powerful jets of subatomic particles deep into intergalactic space; quasars seen in the very early Universe are an extreme example.
A small portion of material gets shot back out in powerful jets of hot gas, called plasma, that can wreak havoc on their surroundings.
Supermassive black holes fire out powerful jets of material, and new research published in the journal Nature has revealed, for the first time, stars developing in this extreme environment.
Through processes still not well understood, powerful jets of particles are propelled outward at speeds nearly that of light.
Radio data shows that the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is producing powerful jets of high - energy particles.
The core of the star collapses into a black hole, while powerful jets of matter and energy are blown into space almost at the speed of light.
In rare cases, black hole births are even more spectacular, with the star firing out powerful jets of high - energy radiation as it dies — a phenomenon known as a gamma - ray burst.
The twisting magnetic fields will act as drive belts, tapping the enormous energy of the spinning disk to launch powerful jets of gas along the axis of the disk and back out into space.
Gullberg and her colleagues believe that the explanation lies with powerful jets of radio waves that are ejected from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Spiderweb Galaxy.
A study at arXiv.org ventures that the Milky Way's black hole may have flared up one or two million years ago, sending off powerful jets of energetic particles.
Astronomer Fabrizio Nicastro of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues monitored the galaxy Markarian 421, which contains a «blazar» — an active black hole that aims powerful jets of energy toward Earth.
A great mystery for scientists is that there's evidence of powerful jets of electrons and protons that shoot out of the top and bottom of some black holes.
Bonus: an above - average IPX6 waterproof rating, meaning it can withstand powerful jets of water from any angle.
These observations help clarify the origin of the powerful jet of gas streaming from the galaxy's center at a high fraction of the speed of light: it is likely driven by the swirling matter near the black hole's boundary.»
Space rockets work in a similar way to the bottle, but instead of squirting water they burn fuel to make a powerful jet of hot gas.
By using a telescope orbiting above the Earth, an Australian scientist has been able to get ten times closer to the core of a powerful jet of plasma shooting out from a black hole.
Spraying is accomplished by squirting a powerful jet of urine backward onto vertical features of the environment — doors, windows, drapes, walls, clothes, etc. — about 8 inches above the floor.

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The power that Israel wields over our Democracy is evident in the miss - appropriation of wealth, while our children are treated to a public education not worthy of circus animals, Israel has our defense industry pumping out fighter jets at 350 million each, and it's no surprise they have the most powerful military on earth.
A desire for mastery and power also motivates people to drive powerful cars, to fly in powerful planes (especially corporate jets, which they «control» more directly), to carry impressive brief cases (a symbol of social power), and to engage in «power» breakfasts.
The mass of the bulge is closely related to the mass of the black hole; the more massive the black hole the more energy is released into the surrounding galaxy in the form of powerful jets and X-ray emission.
Black holes gobble up some matter and launch the rest away in powerful jets, scattering atoms within and between galaxies; pairs of neutron stars, also targets of Advanced LIGO, may ultimately trigger gamma - ray bursts, among the brightest and most energetic explosions known in the universe.
With a fluid velocity of about 1 to 2 centimeters per second, the jet was also powerful enough to mix shallow waters with deeper, saltier waters.
Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.
The central galaxy in this cluster harbors a supermassive black hole that is in the process of devouring star - forming gas, which fuels a pair of powerful jets that erupt from the black hole in opposite directions into intergalactic space.
«To produce powerful jets, black holes must feed on the same material that the galaxy uses to make new stars,» said Michael McDonald, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and coauthor on the paper.
Powerful radio jets from the black hole - which normally suppress star formation - are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas.
Many galaxies in this catalogue are dwarf galaxies with indistinct structures, or active galaxies generating powerful jets — but a large number of the galaxies are interacting, such as Messier 51, the Antennae Galaxies, and Arp 256.
At the point where this powerful jet strikes the bubble wall, it «fractures» the liquid, releasing energy in the form of light, says Andrea Prosperetti, an internationally respected expert on the mechanical properties of bubbles.
In recent decades these nebulae, once thought to be mostly spherical, have been observed to often emit powerful, bipolar jets of gas and dust.
The most powerful jets, called quasars, arise when black holes weighing as much as billions of suns fling infalling matter and energy back out into the galaxy, heating up loads of dust and gas and creating blinding beams of energy.
With no way in, the now - energized stuff ricochets back into space at nearly the speed of light, forming extended, luminous jets aligned along the black hole's powerful magnetic fields.
The idea that neutron stars can produce x-ray jets as powerful as those created by black holes is «a pretty big deal» that challenges some of the current models of the phenomena, says astrophysicist Rob Fender of the University of Southampton in the U.K..
Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high - speed jets blasting radio waves and other radiation across the Universe.
Even protostars — these are young stars that are just forming and making their own planetary disks and so on — they make very powerful outflows called, the same sort of jets obviously moving at slower speeds, but they are full of plasma, that is flowing out at high speed; white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes big and small, they seem able to do this task, it really seems to be a very common phenomenon.
Minkel: So, the jets that you said were sort of a generic feature coming out of, I think, you said proto - planetary disks and as well as around black holes — so, what's the mystery with those, are they, especially powerful or impressive in some way?
«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.
A series of powerful water jets sweeps the stunned or dead fish away from the barrier.
The most popular explanation of how jets form is that the fast - spinning accretion disk, which contains charged particles, will produce a powerful magnetic field that is in contact with the black hole.
Indeed, to shove aside such vast volumes of gas, the jets have churned out as much energy as nearly a billion gamma - ray bursts — the most powerful instantaneous explosions known.
As a result of this massive «meal» the black hole begins to launch a powerful jet that we can detect with radio telescopes.
This breakthrough is an indication that even smaller sources are capable of launching powerful gamma ray jets — a potential paradigm shift in the field of astrophysics.
The jets in another nebula, K3 - 35, are so powerful, reports Luis Miranda of Spain's Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia, that they are squashing clouds of water vapor at their tips, 450 billion miles from the star, and causing the water to mase - emit laserlike beams of microwaves.
This image illustrates the «multi-messenger» emission from a gigantic reservoir of cosmic rays that are accelerated by powerful jets from a supermassive black hole.
The jet stream — a powerful river of wind high in the atmosphere — shapes the Northern Hemisphere's weather, including bitter cold snaps.
Whenever a powerful volcano erupts, it sends a jet of sulfur particles into the atmosphere's upper reaches.
Powerful radio jets from the black hole — which normally suppress star formation — are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas.
Figure 1 Composite image showing how powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster inflated huge «bubbles» in the hot, ionized gas surrounding the galaxy (the cavities inside the blue region imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory).
Many researchers assume that a supermassive black hole is located in the center of a quasar and intense magnetic fields are responsible for ejecting powerful jets.
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