Sentences with phrase «times mass»

Nugent also said that the observations suggested single or multiple detached shells of material ejected prior to the recent supernova explosion, «which has been predicted for stars that are 100 times the mass of our sun.»

One quasar, two billion times the mass of the Sun, is so far from Earth that believers in the big bang admit that the quasar must have formed (by some unknown mechanism) very soon after the universe began.

It has at least 3.75 times Jupiter's mass, but subsequent astrometic as well as high - cadence radial velocity measurements suggest that planet d may have 10.25 +0.7 / -3.3 times the mass of Jupiter with an inclination of 155.5 ° from Earth's line of sight (McArthur et al, 2010); Han et al, 2000; and Mazeh et al, 1999).

«The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses 7 - 8 times the mass of Earth and orbits that take them very close to their host star,» explains UC Berkeley graduate student Lauren Weiss.

At a distance of 170 light - years from Earth, there's a planet seven times the mass of Jupiter where it rains glass at higher altitudes and iron at lower levels, according to NASA.

Astronomers think supermassive black holes — which can contain millions or billions of times the mass of the sun — reside at the cores of most, if not all, galaxies.

Based on astrometic as well as high - cadence radial velocity measurements, planetary candidate «c» appears to have around 14.0 +2.3 / -5.3 times the mass of Jupiter (McArthur et al, 2010).

These are believed to move under the influence of the gravitational pull of a black hole with 3 million times the mass of our Sun.

Located around 18.5 light - years away, LSR J1835 +3259 is estimated to be 55 times the mass of Jupiter.

Weighing in at two times the mass of the Sun, this pulsar broke all the rules for neutron stars that predicted they could not be more than 1.4 times the mass of the Sun.

The star has about 2.7 times the mass of Sol, 12.2 times its diameter, and around 78.5 times its luminosity (Hummel et al, 1994; and Mewe et al, 2001; in pdf).

Star A is a yellowish main sequence dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type F8 V, with 1.31 times the mass of Sol (McArthur et al, 2010), 1.6 times its diameter, and 3.4 times its luminosity.

To scientists, that suggested that the collision involved much less celestial stuff than a black - hole merger — that it was instead two neutron stars, each about one and a half times the mass of our sun.

Classified as an S0 / Sa galaxy, UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral, and it is huge, about four times the mass of our Milky Way (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA)

It is a possible «Planet Nine» — a world perhaps 10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.

The scientists estimate Dragonfly 44's mass to be similar to the Milky Way's at 1 trillion times the mass of the Sun or more precisely 2 tredecillion kilograms (which is a 2 followed by 42 zeros).

This star, already more than 30 times the mass of our Sun, is still in the process of gathering material from its parent molecular cloud, and may be even more massive when it finally reaches adulthood.

The newly announced one, MOA -2009-BLG-266Lb, is estimated to be just over 10 times the mass of Earth and orbits at a distance of 3.2 AU around its parent star with roughly half the mass of the sun.

Stars 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun often puff up to supergiants before ending their lives as supernovae.

That star is between 10 and 20 times the mass of our sun, and it's churning out a powerful wind of high - energy particles.

The researchers concluded that the most likely perturber of WASP 3 b's orbit is an additional planet, about 15 times the mass of Earth, following a wider orbit than that of the known planet.

The same set of observations indicated that another of Gliese 581's planets — this one seven times the mass of Earth — orbits at the right distance for liquid water, making it the first alien world that could plausibly support life.

«The first stars were much more massive than most stars we see today, upwards of 100 times the mass of our sun,» said John Wise, a post-doctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and one of the study's authors.

His microscopic black holes weigh just a thousand times the mass of a proton.

At first, researchers thought these cosmic objects, called ultraluminous X-ray sources, or ULXs, were hefty black holes with more than ten times the mass of the sun.

But for large black holes, like the supermassive objects at the cores of galaxies like the Milky Way, which weigh tens of millions if not billions of times the mass of a star, crossing the event horizon would be, well, uneventful.

About 3 times the mass of the sun was converted into gravitational waves in a fraction of a second — with a peak power output about 50 times that of the whole visible universe.

By monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Earth.

Based on the observed signals, LIGO scientists estimate that the black holes for this event were about 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, and the event took place 1.3 billion years ago.

By recreating the Event with computer simulations, the scientists calculated that the two black holes weighed about 36 times and 29 times the mass of the Sun, respectively, and that the combined black hole weighed about 62 solar masses1.

Throughout their expansion, massive stars shed large amounts of material — every year, VY Canis Majoris sees 30 times the mass of the Earth expelled from its surface in the form of dust and gas.

It is 30 — 40 times the mass of the Sun and 300 000 times more luminous.

Stars 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun often expand to supergiants before ending their lives as supernovae.

The deep gap points clearly to the presence of planets with several times the mass of Jupiter, creating these caverns as they sweep through the disc.»

From its observed properties the star was determined to be about 0.8 times the mass of our Sun, and the mass of its mysterious counterpart was calculated at around 4.36 times the Sun's mass — almost certainly a black hole.

The planet may have a mass as small as 1.4 times that of Earth; the smallest worlds discovered thus far are around five times the mass of Earth.

Initial calculations showed that these stars would have grown to between 100 and 200 times the mass of our sun.

Each object was presumably the remnant of a very massive star, with the larger star approaching 100 times the mass of the Sun and the smaller one a little less.

The calcium in your bones, like every other heavy atom in your body, was forged in the fiery furnace of enormous stars, 10, 100, even 1000 times the mass of the sun.

Previous work suggested that for black holes of this size — about 30 times the mass of the sun — there would be no bright flash, no hazy glow, no light to speak of.

Supermassive black holes more than a million times the mass of our sun exist at the centers of many galaxies, but how they came to be is unclear.

Fomalhaut b is significant for its small size, estimated to be between the mass of Neptune and three times the mass of Jupiter, which would place it squarely in the realm of planets.

On closer inspection, they discovered that the star was orbiting a black hole four times the mass of the sun, Newsweek reports.

WISE J085510.83 - 071442.5 is estimated to be 3 to 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

Svetlana Berdyugina at the University of Freiburg, Germany, led a team that used observations from the Keck telescope to view the magnetism of a brown dwarf 55 times the mass of Jupiter (arxiv.org/abs/1709.02861).

The LIGO team determined the waves it had detected came from two black holes, 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, merging together.

A star ten times the mass of the sun will burn for only a few million years, but they will be tempestuous years.

It's not yet clear how this binary system formed, but the discovery may help redefine the line between planets and brown dwarfs — failed stars tens of times the mass of Jupiter.

Typically, ellipticals are found to host a black hole that is more than a billion times the mass of our sun.»

The whole caboodle weighs in at about 150,000 times the mass of our sun.