The team interpreted those shifts as the effect of cyclonic winds moving above and below the black hole at speeds of about 4000 kilometers per second,
tens of thousands of times stronger than the most intense cyclones on Earth.
Not exact matches
They whirl vials around
tens of thousands of times a minute, generating centrifugal forces up to 30,000
times as
strong as Earth's gravity.
Tambora merits an Index score
of 7, making the eruption approximately one
thousand times more powerful than the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, which disrupted trans - Atlantic air travel in 2010 but rated only a 4; one hundred
times stronger than Mount St. Helens (a 5); and
ten times more powerful than Krakatoa (a 6).
It has a mass
of 1.5 the mass
of the Sun concentrated in about 10 kilometers diameter object, rotates 30
times per second, and is surrounded by a region
of intense magnetic field
ten thousand billion
times stronger than that
of the Sun.
Carbon nanotubes, for example, are
tens of thousands of times thinner than a human hair, yet are
stronger than steel on an ounce - per - ounce basis.
The alignment
of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much
stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on
time scales
of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).
The alignment
of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much
stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on
time scales
of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).