Sentences with phrase «such as neutron stars»

The realization could lead to new insights into superconductivity and exotic astrophysical objects such as neutron stars.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

«Therefore compact objects such as neutron stars are strongly favored by this result.»

So, too, do astrophysical exotica such as neutron stars and white dwarfs — the remnants left by normal stars when they die.

Such particles could eventually enable astrophysicists to infer properties such as a neutron star's size and the strength of its gravity at its surface.

One is a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole.

Cosmic jets, most astronomers believe, arise when a massive object, such as a neutron star or a black hole, draws in material.

One is that they are caused by a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole or supernova.

A long - standing goal of the LIGO project has been the development of multi-messenger astronomy — the near - simultaneous observation of cataclysmic events such as neutron star mergers or supernova explosions in both gravitational waves and light, providing details about the astrophysics of these phenomena that can't be revealed through either alone.

Not exact matches

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

For cosmic things, many particles that came out of the Big Bang — such as electrons, protons, and neutrons — have been processed in the cores of stars.

That could help predict the behaviour of matter under extreme conditions, such as inside neutron stars or in the early universe.

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.

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.

«It is quite remarkable that a system as complex as a rotating neutron star can be described by such a simple relation,» declares Prof. Luciano Rezzolla, one of the authors of the publication and Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Vacuum birefringence «can be detected only in the presence of enormously strong magnetic fields, such as those around neutron stars,» study co-author Roberto Turolla, a scientist at the University of Padua in Italy, said in the statement.

«Previously, as anticipated, gamma ray detectors had observed bursts of gamma rays such as were expected from neutron star mergers.

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.

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.

Frustratingly for the Virgo team, the steel wires are expected to have the most impact on sensitivity to gravitational waves with lower frequencies than neutron star mergers, such as those from the mergers of black holes.

So astronomers are scratching their heads this week as new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory indicate that such an event formed only a neutron star.

The observations that they were able to take ultimately helped reveal that neutron - star mergers create heavy elements found on Earth, such as gold.

Through these efforts, astronomers are attempting to understand recently discovered phenomena such as the first detections of gravitational waves from neutron star collisions and the accompanying electromagnetic fireworks as well as regular stars being engulfed by supermassive black holes.

But some scientists have suggested the fast - moving stars near the cluster centres could instead result from the gravity of many dim, dead stars such as white dwarfs or neutron stars.

The Hebrew University team of scientists have shown that these contradicting observations can be reconciled if the source of radioactive plutonium (as well as other rare elements, such as gold and uranium) is in mergers of binary neutron stars.

Thus it addresses a spectrum not covered by experiments such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, which searches for lower - frequency waves to detect massive cosmic events such as colliding black holes and merging neutron stars.

Other cosmic phenomena such as supernovae in the Milky Way and colliding neutron stars in our galactic neighborhood should also produce detectable gravitational waves, each with their own accompanying revolutionary insights, but so far all three of LIGO's detections have been death - rattles from merging pairs of black holes in remote stretches of the universe.

On deck is SPEKTR - RG, a pair of x-ray telescopes that would map x-ray sources such as black holes and neutron stars.

There are many questions, such as, how can a rotating neutron star produce the high amount of energy typical of an FRB?»

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in space and time itself, set off by cosmic cataclysms such as the merger of two neutrons stars or black holes.

Specifically, the most energetic iron emission they studied is characteristic of so - called x-ray binary starsduos comprised of a dense stellar object such as a white dwarf star, a neutron star or a black hole that collects matter from a less dense companion, emitting x-rays in the process.

These are ripples in the fabric of space - time that, according to Einstein's theory, are produced by cataclysmic events such as the merging of two black holes or two neutron stars.

Three such ULXs have been identified as neutron stars so far.

For these waves to be big enough to detect, however, extraordinarily massive, astronomical objects are required, such as accelerating black holes or neutron stars.

«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying neutron stars and we will identify many nearby star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope.»

Thorne had, since the 1960s, been evaluating how extreme events in the universe, such as colliding black holes and neutron stars, would generate gravitational radiation.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

«A smaller search area enables follow - up observations with telescopes and satellites for cosmic events that produce gravitational waves and emissions of light, such as the collision of neutron stars.»

Among them, as reported by Jose Martinez (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) and coauthors in a recent publication, is PSR J1411 +2551: a new double neutron star with one of the lowest masses ever measured for such a system.

Enrico Ramirez - Ruiz studies stellar explosions, gamma - ray bursts and how material accretes onto dense objects such as black holes and neutron stars.

Ever more sophisticated instruments, such as the gravitational wave observatory that yielded last week's breakthrough, generate new clues about black holes, neutron stars, supernovas, strange new particles.

Berkeley Lab is a member of the collaboration for ZTF, which is designed to discover supernovae and also to search for rare and exotic events such as those that occur during the aftermath of neutron star mergers.

Such a model can be applied to describe stars as well as neutron stars with a nontrivial topology at their center.