Sentences with phrase «said black masses»

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«Since there is no empirical way to show that one host is consecrated while another is not — consecrated hosts do not glow in the dark — there is also no way for anyone but the organizers to know whether a host used in a black mass has been consecrated or not,» Clooney said.

The history of black Masses is murky, but Catholics say the intent of such ceremonies is obvious: to mock their rituals and beliefs.

«Black people in our American society were systematically locked out of what has been called «the greatest mass based opportunity for wealth accumulation in American history,»» Miner said, referring to the mid-20th century practice of redlining.

«It is time that New York City enact a congestion pricing plan that fully funds our mass transit system, improves traffic flow, and fairly applies fees so that outer - borough black car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a stateblack car riders aren't forced to pay more than Manhattan residents who can easily hail a cab,» said Ira Goldstein, the Black Car Fund's executive director, in a stateBlack Car Fund's executive director, in a statement.

And, on December 21, Cuomo issued a mass pardon of 16 - and 17 - year - olds convicted of non-violent crimes, saying it would erase a black mark against them when they seek jobs.

And, on December 21st, Cuomo issued a mass pardon of 16 and 17 year olds convicted of non violent crimes, saying it would erase a black mark against them when they seek jobs.

Only a black hole — which is made of pure gravitational energy and gets its mass through Einstein's famous equation E = mc2 — can pack so much mass into so little space, says Bruce Allen, a LIGO member at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hanover, Germany.

Brightening events for 30 - solar - mass black holes would stretch out for years, so they haven't yet been ruled out, says Ely Kovetz, a cosmologist at Johns Hopkins.

«Even if only 1 percent of the mass in a filament takes part in the collapse, that's already 100,000 times the mass of the sun, a very good start to making one of these supermassive black holes,» Theuns says.

It doesn't necessarily make sense, said Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, that a massive star could undergo a supernova — a process which entails blowing off much of its outer layers — and still have enough mass left over to form a massive black hole on the scale of those that LIGO detected.

Alfred Goldhaber of Stony Brook University in New York says that if black holes have charged plasma swirling around them, a photon's slowed movement through the plasma could make it behave as if it has mass, ruining the calculations.

Instead, the bursts could come from a young neutron star orbiting the dwarf galaxy's dominant black hole, which probably has between 10,000 and 1 million times the mass of the sun, he says.

«The big puzzle is why a 3 million solar mass black hole is so faint,» says astronomer Fred Baganoff of MIT.

This rules out the popular «Brown - Bethe» model, which says the maximum mass for a neutron star is about 1.5 solar masses before collapse into a black hole is inevitable, as well as other models.

If the new force does exist, we might soon be able to see its effects on things influenced by dark matter, such as the behaviour of black holes or the masses of the first stars, says Douglas Finkbeiner of Harvard University, who was not involved in the new study.

The amplitude and frequency of these waves could reveal the initial mass of the seeds from which the first black holes grew since they were formed 13 billion years ago and provide further clues about what caused them and where they formed, the researchers said.

The surprise, Gebhardt says, was that the whirling rates of these outer stars were nearly perfectly correlated with the masses of the black holes.

A team of astronomers says it has found a new and remarkably simple way to measure the mass of a black hole: examine the shape of its home galaxy.

«If you really want to have a precise mass measurement of the black hole in a specific galaxy, you'd better use the slightly more cumbersome velocity dispersion method,» Ferrarese says.

But, she says, it turns out that not all galaxies for which black hole masses are known conform to the new correlation, and it's impossible to predict which will and which will not.

These rapidly spinning neutron stars flash regular radio pulses, and in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal astronomers say that the timing of such pulses could provide a new understanding of the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

The ionization increases, the astronomers say, near black holes that are swallowing up matter at a higher rate relative to their mass, which creates more radiation capable of stripping away electrons.

It comes from the spinning space - time around the black hole and in fact it is not very well known, but that energy is there for the taking — up to 29 percent of the so - called rest mass energy of a spinning black hole is extractable — an d original conjecture, which is not, as I say [said], yet established fact, but certainly taken much more seriously than it was at that time — 10 or 15 percent of the rest mass energy of the black hole, about half of the spin energy, is in practice according to our conjecture, is in fact, the power source for these relativistically moving jets.

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.

«We have a pretty good understanding of the overall population of stars in the universe and their mass distribution as they're born, so we can tell how many black holes should have formed with 100 solar masses versus 10 solar masses,» Bullock said.

«By comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy has a black hole with a mass of only 4 million solar masses at its center; the black hole that powers this new quasar is 3,000 time heavier,» Fan said.

But Ozernoy says that both the intensity and the spectrum of the synchrotron radiation depend on the black hole's mass.

NASA researchers say they successfully tested a new way to measure the mass of black holes.

Ma says that the monster black holes her team discovered in 2011 in NGC 4889 and NGC 3842, each weighing about 10 billion solar masses, may be quiescent quasars.

The motion of S2, Gillessen says, gives an outer boundary to the central object, which, combined with its inferred mass, helps prove that it is a black hole.

«If the stars formed in clusters, the black holes could coalesce rapidly and grow fairly quickly up to the masses we see in quasars,» says Kukula.

For a black hole of a given mass, Narayan says, there is a «switch» — a rate of matter flow above which the matter will be dense enough to radiate in the intense way conventional theory says it should, and below which it will radiate at a tiny fraction of that level.

«Despite all odds, we see the best evidence yet that low - mass stars are forming startlingly close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way,» said Farhad Yusef - Zadeh, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and lead author on the paper.

While the intermediate - mass black hole that the team studied is not the first one measured, it is the first one so precisely measured, Mushotzky says, «establishing it as a compelling example of this class of black holes.»

Strader says that's a characteristic of black holes that are 10 times to 20 times as massive as the sun, on the heavy side for stellar - mass black holes, making them comparable to the black hole in Cygnus X-1, which is 15 solar masses.

«Black holes can have a mass that is billions of times larger than the sun, mostly because they are messy eaters in a way, capturing any material that ventures too close,» says York University Associate Professor Patrick Hall, who is Rogerson's supervisor.

Scientists say that type II supernovae should not produce black holes much bigger than about 30 solar masses — and both black holes were at the high end of that range.

«Other results showed that you can get the right mass — but black holes are more than mass,» says Smidt.

Low - metallicity stars thus «lose less mass, so more of it goes into the black hole, for the same initial mass», Nelemans says.

«The discovery that these very bright objects, long thought to be black holes with masses up to 1,000 times that of the sun, are powered by much less massive neutron stars, was a huge scientific surprise,» says Fiona Harrison, Caltech's Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics; the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy; and the principal investigator of the NuSTAR mission.

«We want to find intermediate - mass black holes because they are the missing link between stellar - mass and supermassive black holes,» Bulent Kiziltan from the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who was involved in the research, said in a statement.

«In our opinion, and as the paper's referees seem to agree, this is the most accurate mass measurement of an intermediate - mass black hole to date,» Pasham said.

«If that is the case, this is the first detection of an intermediate mass black hole,» the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, which operates the Nobeyama radio telescope that was used to make the detection, said, in the statement.

Researchers said that to identify these black holes, they had to ascertain that the holes belong to the stellar mass category in the Andromeda Galaxy itself, as opposed to being super-massive black holes in more - distant galaxies.

But that debate can now be put to rest, says a research team that has measured an intermediate black hole's mass with unprecedented precision.

«It has all the power of a black hole, but with much less mass,» says Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR's principal investigator at Caltech.

Shoemaker added that the new observation provides «further confirmation of the existence of stellar - mass black holes that are larger than 20 solar masses» — objects which he said scientists «didn't know existed before LIGO detected them.»

«This is the first detection of an intermediate - mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way galaxy,» he said.

«The essential features of black widow and redback binaries are that they place a normal but very low - mass star in close proximity to a millisecond pulsar, which has disastrous consequences for the star,» said Roger Romani, a member of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, an institute jointly run by Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..