Sentences with phrase «stellar corpse»

In this kind of explosion, the star itself actually implodes — collapses towards its own center — resulting in a dense stellar corpse whose immense gravitational force can end up forming a black hole.

They looked at light from a neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — through a series of filters.

The team concluded that the supernova explosion hurled this stellar corpse from the blast site, leaving behind a glowing trail, which is still seen today as the handle of the frying pan.

Bright spots in the map include the Crab Nebula, which hosts a radiation - spewing stellar corpse called a pulsar, and several blazars, violent active galaxies where colossal black holes accelerate particles to more than 99 % the speed of light.

One such short GRB — caused by a starquake on a dense stellar corpse called a neutron star — was observed in the Milky Way in December 2004 (see Starquake explosion rips neutron star open).

They used a series of filters, like polarised, glare - blocking sunglasses but bigger and more precise, to observe the light from a nearby, relatively dim neutron star — a dense stellar corpse with a colossal magnetic field — and compared it with light from ordinary nearby stars.

Though the stellar corpse shows no signs of life, it is a cosmic vampire, biding its time as it slowly sucks gas from its mate.

The event was what's known as a classical nova explosion, which occurs when a dense stellar corpse called a white dwarf steals enough material from an ordinary companion star for its gas to spontaneously ignite.

The Guitar pulsar is a stellar corpse that is tearing through interstellar gas and creating a guitar - shaped wake of hot hydrogen (pictured).

Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor Jr. won the 1993 Nobel Prize in physics for deducing gravity wave emission based on the motion of a stellar corpse called a neutron star and a closely orbiting companion.

Another explanation holds that our universe is housed inside a black hole — the superdense stellar corpse left behind in the aftermath of certain supernovae explosions.

Elusive gravitational waves, meanwhile, can reveal unseen collisions between stellar corpses, such as black holes and neutron stars.

Neutron stars, stellar corpses that pack the mass of the sun into balls a dozen miles across, are among the most extreme objects in the universe.

By cataloging their stellar corpses using LIGO, astronomers can learn more about how these stars lived out their lives.

Neutron stars are dense stellar corpses with masses «only» a little larger than the Sun crammed into a city - size sphere.

Gravitational waves from the collision between two ultradense stellar corpses was picked up in August by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, and its sister experiment in Italy, Advanced Virgo (SN: 11/11/17, p. 6).

A balancing act between forces forms similar structures inside cells and dense stellar corpses, suggesting links between astrophysics and life on Earth

Pulsars are a special type of the compact stellar corpses called neutron stars, left behind after giant stars explode.

Using only the timing of radiation bursts from pulsating stellar corpses, an experiment on the International Space Station was able to pinpoint its location in space in a first - ever demonstration.

That theory says short bursts occur when two dense stellar corpses, called neutron stars, merge and form a black hole.

The measurement, reported June 7 in Austin, Texas, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, vindicates both Einstein's most famous theory and what goes on in the inner lives of stellar corpses.

With it, astronomers have listened to the rapid spinning of burned - out stellar corpses and discovered an improbable family of planets serenely circling one of them.

Left behind are dense stellar corpses called white dwarfs.

Neutron stars are dense, fast - spinning stellar corpses that can pull material from a smaller orbiting star, spooling it into a disc before gobbling it up.

NICER will take the most precise measurements yet of neutron stars, and test technology to use these dense stellar corpses as beacons for interstellar navigation.

The stellar corpses — highly dense objects known as white dwarfs — were spotted inside a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula.

Many dying stars and stellar corpses are embedded in their ejected material, which shrouds our view in visible light but can be penetrated with Webb's infrared vision.

Neutron stars are the stellar corpses in question.

A kilonova is triggered by the collision of two stellar corpses.

These dim stellar corpses dot the galaxy, leftovers from brightly burning stars.

These are highly magnetic, rapidly rotating stellar corpses.

Using only the timing of radiation bursts from pulsating stellar corpses Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world.

Not exact matches

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