Sentences with phrase «remnants of dying stars»

Astronomers know that black holes ranging from about 10 times to 100 times the mass of our sun are the remnants of dying stars, and that supermassive black holes, more than a million times the mass of the sun, inhabit the centers of most galaxies.

Scientists have been studying the remnants of this dying star, known as 1987A, ever since.

The donut of material confines the intense radiation coming from the remnant of the dying star.

Not exact matches

When they die, stars explode in supernovae, leaving behind a cloud of ejected material called a supernova remnant.

Norbert Schulz and Nicola Omodei discuss the recent detection of a dying star igniting the most powerful blast ever seen — something so powerful it radiated energy that was 500 million times that of visible light and how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

A more powerful type of X-ray source is a supernova remnant, the gaseous shell ejected during the violent explosion of a dying star.

In a stellar black hole, which forms when a giant star dies explosively, the rotation is a logical remnant of the star's spin.

Those remnants are the rubble left over from the explosions of dying stars, which in turn become incorporated into newly forming planets.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

The most massive of these dying stars leave behind a remnant known as a black hole.