Sentences with phrase «swirling gas clouds»
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.
http://news.berkeley.edu/ Not exact matches
Swirling motions in clouds of cold, dense gas have given, for the first time, an active insight into how gravity creates the compact cores from which stars form in the interstellar medium.
But the black holes in the Whirlpool have temperatures of less than 4 million degrees Celsius, indicating that the clouds of hot gas swirling around them are bigger and more spread out.
This is a function of the way the planets swirled into existence from the same cloud of dust and gas that gave rise to the sun itself — and is one of the things that got poor Pluto booted from the planet club altogether back in 2006.
Hubble's infrared camera enabled Freudling, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, to analyze the elements in three quasars — clouds of hot gas swirling into giant black holes — that were up to 12.8 billion years old.
Our solar system began as a swirling cloud of dust and gas, the remainders of exploded stars.
When dense regions of a cloud collapse, the massive inner part becomes a star while the rest forms a swirling disk of gas and dust that may give rise to planets.
Stars condense from huge clouds of swirling interstellar gas.
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.
These «raindrops» eventually cool down enough to transform into star - forming clouds of cold molecular gas that end up making «a swirling «puddle» of star - forming gas around the central black hole.»
More popular theories hold that the solar system formed from a cloud of swirling gas, dust, or larger particles.