Sentences with phrase «swirling gas»

More popular theories hold that the solar system formed from a cloud of swirling gas, dust, or larger particles.

The gravity of a black hole pulls swirling gas into it, heating this material and causing it to shine with different types of light.

Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the Universe.

The Milky Way today is a spiral - shaped disk of swirling gas orbiting a central hub of stars — signs of a mature galaxy.

Since a star and its planets were never part of a single swirling gas and dust cloud spinning around the same axis, there is no reason for hot Jupiters to have their spin axes aligned with the star's spin axis, or for all their orbits to be prograde.

His infrared studies of the center of the galaxy with Reinhard Genzel, now a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, revealed in 1985 swirling gas clouds that could only be orbiting a massive object, presumably a black hole.

You would be swept along by an irresistible current, not of swirling gas or stardust but of space - time itself.

Originally called ASTRO - H, Hitomi carries a suite of instruments designed to detect x-rays and gamma rays emanating from black holes, swirling gases in galaxy clusters, and supernova remnants.

To describe people as machines made of meat is as scientifically unsophisticated as to think of the sun as a heat - emitting machine made of swirling gas.

«Scientists estimate solar nebula's lifetime: Study finds the swirling gas disk disappeared within the solar system's first 4 million years.»

But planetary dynamicists have struggled to explain why, as in their computer models of the swirling gas, dust, and rubble of the early solar nebula, Mars tends to grow to the size of Earth or Venus.

You would be swept along by anirresistible current, not of swirling gas or stardust but of space - timeitself.

Dr Shannon, from the Curtin node of ICRAR (the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) and CSIRO, said all FRBs contained crucial information but this FRB, the 18th detected so far, was unique in the amount of information it contained about the cosmic web — the swirling gases and magnetic fields between galaxies.