Sentences with phrase «results about black holes»

Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram

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As a result, an estimated 20,000 black holes, each about the size of a city and containing a few times the mass of the sun, are thought to be circling Sagittarius A *.

«For instance, a paper talking about protein - folding patterns is a great example of the practice of making models to understand phenomena, while preliminary results from a study of black holes might be a great way to ask students to examine what the next steps would be for the researchers, allowing them to develop hypotheses and design possible experiments,» Lake said.

Along with black holes, neutron stars are the result of stars collapsing under gravity once their fuel burns out, until their density is about the same as that of the nucleus of an atom, at which point the protons and electrons «melt» into pure neutrons.

Much smaller black holes (typically weighing several times as much as the sun) result from the explosive death of ultrabright stars, so these dark objects reveal secrets about the stellar life cycle.

The results indicate the black hole in question is about 100 times the mass of the sun, putting it right at the border between small and medium black holes.

He said that scientists assume most stellar - remnant black holes — which result from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives — will be about the same mass as our sun.

While their result is making the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes more puzzling, Yoshiki and his team are exciting about revealing the full picture of the scenario.

For many years, astronomers have known two types - «supermassive» black holes at the centers of large galaxies and the so - called «stellar - mass» black holes that result when a star about 10 times the Sun's mass ends its life in a supernova explosion.

As a result, some of the gas (about 100,000 to 1 million solar masses) would be free to collapse and form a black hole.

My grandparents» house, where I spend most holidays, is like a black hole — in a good way: Whenever I'm there, I spend most of my time sleeping, eating, and lazing about, pleasantly sedated by the combination of the blazing fireplace, the comfy blankets that Grandma knits and leaves on all of the furniture, and the inevitable food coma that results after one of our afternoon Pennsylvania Dutch feasts.

I'm talking about the Oscar race, which was something of a black hole for its first three months, the inevitable result of a season with no clear frontrunner that was also frequently drowned out by that other news cycle I mentioned earlier.

There are tendencies, but we should be very very careful about pigeon holing beliefs or scientific results into black or white boxes.