Sentences with phrase «superfast jets»
When a pair of researchers aimed the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope toward a famous quasar, they sought evidence to support a popular theory for why the superfast jets of particles streaming from quasars are confined to narrow streams.
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More than 50 years ago, aerospace engineers spent over $ 1 billion — in 1950s money — designing atomic - powered airplanes in the hope that such superfast jets could remain aloft for 15,000 miles (21,150 kilometers) at a time.
That material formed a rapidly - spinning disk that generated a pair of narrow, superfast jets of material flowing outward from its poles.
A superfast jet of subatomic particles presumably powered by the gravitational energy of a black hole has collided with nearby material, been slowed dramatically and released much of its energy in the collision, radio astronomers report.