Sentences with phrase «size of particular regions»

Not exact matches

In this particular quasar, the water vapor is distributed around the black hole in a gaseous region spanning hundreds of light - years in size (a light - year is about six trillion miles).

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

But you can use other ideas for the size of a region, and in particular, you can use the probability of the region under some prior distribution.