Sentences with phrase «quadrillion suns»

The protocluster is massive, with its core weighing as much as a quadrillion suns.

«The protocluster will very likely grow into a massive cluster of galaxies like the Coma cluster, which weighs more than a quadrillion suns,» said Purdue University astrophysicist Dr. Kyoung - Soo Lee, who initially spotted the protocluster and is one of the authors in this study.

The lens is known as Abell 2744, a cosmic pileup where four groups of galaxies are colliding to create one gargantuan gathering with the mass of about 2 quadrillion suns (SN: 6/13/15, p. 32).

Not exact matches

These gamma - ray bursts, astrophysicists recently learned, originate in distant galaxies and are unfathomably powerful — as much as 10 quadrillion (a one followed by 16 zeros) times as energetic as the sun.

From all these data, the scientists determined the cluster's mass: two quadrillion times the mass of our own sun, most of it dark matter and hot, tenuous gas.

It contains about 100 quadrillion times the mass of the sun, equivalent to 100,000 Milky Ways.

These are emitted by the quadrillion from the fusion factory at the core of the sun and usually pass through matter like a laser beam through fog.

And what weighs 2 quadrillion times the mass of our own sun?

Both are huge, extending for millions of light - years, and very massive: each is about one quadrillion times the mass of our Sun.

The sun pumps out some 383 quadrillion watts of energy every second thanks to fusion.

These limitations define a ring of space that starts about 6.5 million miles from the sun and extends out to just under 20 million miles — an area comprising about 1 quadrillion square miles.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

As the sun flushes heat into our atmosphere at a mind - boggling rate of 175 quadrillion watts, the air near the equator absorbs more energy than the air near the poles.

The galaxy clusters, called Abell 3411 and Abell 3412, are about two billion light - years from Earth, and are very massive, with about a quadrillion (a million billion) times the mass of the sun each.