Sentences with phrase «spins in a binary system»
Supernova explosions and dizzying spins in a binary system.»
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The LIGO team's analysis suggests these spins were misaligned, indicating that the pair of black holes might not always have been together in a tight binary system but, rather, randomly came together over time.
«Several interpretations of the nature of this system have been proposed, from an isolated slowly spinning magnetar with a substantial fossil - disk, to a young low mass X-ray binary system, or even a binary magnetar, but none of them is straightforward, nor can they explain the overall observational properties,» researchers said in a study, published in the Sept. 2, 2016, issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The prize was given for his discovery of the first «binary pulsar» - a celestial system in which two pulsars (rapidly spinning neutron stars) orbit each other.