Sentences with phrase «produces jets of material»

A comet produces jets of material as it travels close to the sun in its orbit.

Some of them are very dramatic, producing jets of material.

Not exact matches

«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.

«Jets of material then hit the expanding outer layers of the star to produce the gamma - ray emission.»

The jets are thought to be produced by the ejection of material that is first pulled and acquired, or «accreted,» from one object to the other and swirled into a so - called accretion disk.

«The fats or lipids appear to facilitate the conversion of other materials in the wastewater such as toilet paper, keep the sludge moving through the reactor, and produce a very high quality biocrude that, when refined, yields fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuels.»

The radio waves provide evidence that the explosion either produced a jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light or a «cocoon» of material from the explosion exists and is expanding more slowly.

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

According to the research, a cataclysmic clash between the protoplanets would produce enough force to melt a fraction of the material, sending a molten plume jetting out into space, whereupon it would cool, and adhere to the surface of what would eventually become meteorites.

The extra arms appear to be an indirect result of jets of material produced by the violent churning of matter around the black hole.