Sentences with phrase «smaller fractions of black»

While 95 percent of Asian young adults (those aged 25 to 34) in 2015 graduated from high school and 94 percent of white young adults graduated from high school, smaller fractions of black (89 percent) and Hispanic (76 percent) young adults had high school diplomas.

The «one drop» rule developed legal weight across the US South during the era of Jim Crow, which ascribed the status of «negro» to people with only a small fraction of black parentage.

A small fraction of a black hole is still a fairly large black hole.

Not exact matches

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

Kashlinsky shows that if black holes play the part of dark matter, this process occurs more rapidly and easily produces the lumpiness of the CIB detected in Spitzer data even if only a small fraction of minihaloes manage to produce stars.

Depending on the mass of the black holes, they could have anywhere from a fraction of a second together (for a black hole the mass of a planet or star) to days or even weeks (for a black hole with the mass of a small galaxy or more).

A small fraction of supermassive black holes — the ginormous ones that lurk at the centers of galaxies — fire off light - speed jets of particles as they snack.

The UCLA researchers proposed that some small fraction of these growing clumps became dense enough to become black holes.

«We want to understand why only a small fraction of supermassive black holes are active,» said Benedetta Vulcani, an astronomer from the University of Melbourne, in a statement.

While black and brown students make up a smaller fraction of the total student population, they account for a large majority of the students being suspended and expelled.

Perhaps some gross thermomechanical process of restructuring the climate mechanisms (some small fraction of these were identified in the Stadium Wave paper, for instance) is ongoing, and the energy of restructuring — melting, subliming and carrying away Arctic sea ice and Greenland and Antarctic land ice net to the atmosphere, higher humidity absorbing gross water amounts to a level impacting sea level rise on the millimeter or sub-millimeter level, expansion of land due heat, or more likely erosion, silting and subsidence, and so on — is responsible for a Black Swan.