Sentences with phrase «such as black holes»

Enrico Ramirez - Ruiz studies stellar explosions, gamma - ray bursts and how material accretes onto dense objects such as black holes and neutron stars.
The waves, first predicted by Albert Einstein roughly a century ago, are basically ripples in the fabric of space - time caused by the acceleration of really massive objects such as black holes.
By detecting gamma - and X-rays, astronomers can observe the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes devouring matter and supernova explosions.
Scientists believe that radiation reaction occurs around objects such as black holes and quasars.
Astro - H is an X-ray observatory, scheduled for launch in 2015, that will explore extreme phenomena such as black holes, supernovae explosions, and clusters of galaxies.
The telescope shall participate in high - resolution imaging of cosmic radio sources, such as black holes and star forming regions.
Astronomers call this effect gravitational lensing, and it's one of the primary methods of detecting unobservable cosmic phenomena such as black holes.
There are other explanations Alex, such as black holes in the center of the galaxy and our parabolic galactic orbit.
On deck is SPEKTR - RG, a pair of x-ray telescopes that would map x-ray sources such as black holes and neutron stars.
We once thought that dark matter might be made up of large objects such as black holes or exotic types of faint stars — neutron stars or white dwarfs — that are nearly invisible to our telescopes.
Last year, the National Space Science Center launched the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope, which is observing high - energy objects such as black holes and neutron stars.
Some might even suggest they may be messages from advanced alien civilisations but many experts have predicted that the bursts are emitted when jets of particles are thrown out by massive astrophysical objects, such as black holes.
Elusive gravitational waves, meanwhile, can reveal unseen collisions between stellar corpses, such as black holes and neutron stars.
MHD simulations, the magnetism of electrically conducting fluids such as black hole jets, add a layer of understanding but are notoriously difficult for even the fastest supercomputers.
A discovery would confirm one of general relativity's most extraordinary predictions and provide an unprecedented glimpse of cataclysmic events such as black hole mergers.
They hope to find tiny stutters in these natural clocks caused by the gravitational wake of a massive event, such as a black hole in orbit around another star.
Future X-ray missions employing this technology will provide vastly improved absorption - and emissionline spectroscopy of high - energy astrophysical sources such as black hole winds and hot gas in the cosmic web.
«Many sources that emit transient X-ray flares, such as black hole binary star systems, also have associated radio emission.
On the other hand, if it were a very massive object, such as a black hole, it would appear to be at rest in the Galaxy's center.
Action trigger events A.T.E. (Action Trigger Events) system triggers real - time events such as The Black Hole, a plane crash, blitz bombing etc to provide a constantly changing gameplay environment.
Each character has their own special move to provide a unique playstyle, such as a black hole and a mirror clone technique.
And the characters you can unlock are fantastic, particularly since they all come with their own unique collectibles, such as a black hole that swallows planets in each level.

Not exact matches

Everything with mass in the universe theoretically creates them — you and me included — but only highly cataclysmic events, such as exploding stars, colliding black holes, or the Big Bang, can generate waves that are powerful enough for LIGO to detect.
What makes the decision so consequential is that it was such a massive move — one for which many key players in the market were not well prepared — and the aftermath is like a black hole that can suck massive amounts of credit from currency trading as we have known it.»
Ripples in space time have already been observed when hyper - violent events, such as stars collapsing into black holes or supernova explosions, occur.
This vacuum you speak of exists in my mind as a gravimetric concept wherein not unlike a magnet a black hole of the major types pull with such veraciousness all matter within its gravimetric reach.
Measurements of the water vapor and of other molecules, such as carbon monoxide, suggest there is enough gas to feed the black hole until it grows to about six times its size.
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The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, searches for the tremors of cosmic dustups such as colliding black holes (SN: 10/28/17, p. 8).
The study appears to vindicate predictions from theorists such as Mark Morris, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who in 1993 penned a key paper predicting tens of thousands of stellar - mass black holes would form a disk around the galactic center.
That data can be analyzed to answer questions about the population as a whole, such as how two black holes get paired up in the first place.
This links events within a contorted space - time geometry, such as in a black hole, with simpler physics at that space's boundary.
As early as 2021 it will be joined by the Einstein Probe, a wide - field x-ray sentinel for transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts and the titanic collisions of neutron stars or black holes that generate gravitational waveAs early as 2021 it will be joined by the Einstein Probe, a wide - field x-ray sentinel for transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts and the titanic collisions of neutron stars or black holes that generate gravitational waveas 2021 it will be joined by the Einstein Probe, a wide - field x-ray sentinel for transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts and the titanic collisions of neutron stars or black holes that generate gravitational waveas gamma ray bursts and the titanic collisions of neutron stars or black holes that generate gravitational waves.
Gravitational waves detectable from Earth are generated by collisions of massive objects, such as when two black holes or neutron stars merge.
Yet wherever they do cross paths, the two theories fail to play nicely together — such as around black holes (see «General relativity at 100: The paradox of black holes «-RRB-.
The team's simulations show that 70 to 98 % of the middleweight black holes at the hearts of clusters were ejected, depending on the assumptions used, such as the mass of the small black holes and the initial mass of the middleweight black hole.
It takes a huge amount of data to describe a star, the precursor of a black hole — from macroscopic properties such as its size and temperature down to the microscopic properties of its constituent particles.
As many as 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova requireAs many as 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova requireas 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova required.
As such, gravitational waves present the best and only way to get a deep look at the population of stellar - mass binary black holes beyond our galaxy.
While there are still parts to be tested with greater precision and aspects to be fully exploited (such as using gravity waves to detect the formation of black holes and events that occurred during the earliest moments of creation), physicists are ready and eager to go beyond Einstein in their understanding of gravity.
Planets orbiting more compact objects, such as white dwarfs, pulsars and black holes, might have even shorter years since they can get closer in.
It will also pick up lower frequency waves, showing us a different set of objects, such as pairs of supermassive black holes.
Forest thinks the machine is on the verge of mimicking astrophysical phenomena such as accretion disks of gas and dust swirling into a black hole.
Although sufficient to disintegrate the primordial star, almost all of the heavy elements such as iron, were consumed by a black hole that formed at the heart of the explosion,» he says.
That's consistent only with strange quark nuggets, the researchers say; other purported particles, such as miniature black holes, would be too massive and far too rare to spawn two earthquakes in 4 years.
If the new model is correct, then such black hole mergers may occur as frequently as once a year somewhere in the Universe.
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.
One such stellar population, known as S stars, takes as little as 10 years to orbit the black hole.
Just as we use various electromagnetic wavelengths such as visible light, infrared and X-rays to study the cosmos, gravitational waves will act as a brand new eye on the universe, potentially giving us greater insight into objects like black holes and neutron stars.
Two detections of gravitational waves caused by collisions between supermassive black holes should be possible each year using space - based instruments such as the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) detector that is due to launch in 2034, the researchers said.
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