Sentences with phrase «very first black holes»

One new idea is that the very first black holes did not form from dead stars at all; instead, they formed directly from the collapse of huge amounts of gas.

A long - standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of years later during the deaths of the earliest stars.

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Tom Theuns and Liang Gao, astronomers at Durham University in England, used a computer model last year to study how two types of dark matter, known as warm and cold, may have influenced the formation of the very first stars in the universe — and the first giant black holes.

«It is very significant that these black holes were much less massive than those observed in the first detection,» said Gabriela Gonzalez, LSC spokesperson and professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.

His second - period stuff on black hole radiation seemed very speculative at first and was disbelieved for quite a while, but then so many other people proved it by different methods that we all agree now that it is correct.

«The emitted gravitational - wave signal and its potential detection will inform researchers about the formation process of the first supermassive black holes in the still very young universe, and may settle some — and raise new — important questions on the history of our universe,» he says.

«NGC 1600 is the first very massive black hole that lives outside a rich environment in the local universe, and could be the first example of a descendent of a very luminous quasar that also didn't live in a privileged site.»

«This is the very first time that any group has shown a gravitational field going turbulent in a perturbed black hole space - time,» says Luis Lehner of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

The GMVA will derive the properties of the accretion and outflow in the immediate surroundings of the Galactic Center, while the EHT will aim at imaging, for the very first time, the shadow of the black hole's event horizon.

This detection has, in a single stroke and for the first time, validated Einstein's theory of general relativity for very strong fields, established the nature of gravitational waves, demonstrated the existence of black holes with masses 30 times that of our sun, and opened a new window on the universe.

The very first detection of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015: Signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger event.

This work is very meaningful since the possibility that a number of «stray black holes» are floating around a supermassive black hole at the Galactic center was indicated by the observational study for the first time.

The very first gravitational waves measured directly came from two merging massive black holes — of all things!?

Using the supersharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light - years from Earth.

«While X-rays from matter falling onto the first black holes hindered their further growth, that very same radiation may have later cleared the way for direct formation of supermassive black holes by suppressing star formation,» said Alvarez.

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists Marcelo Alvarez and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, and John Wise, formerly of KIPAC and now of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

The first black holes in the universe had dramatic effects on their surroundings despite the fact that they were small and grew very slowly, according to recent supercomputer simulations carried out by astrophysicists wth the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.

Using the supersharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array, astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light - years from Earth.

With the combined power of a worldwide network of radio telescopes, astronomers hope to peer into the heart of our galaxy and image — for the first time — the very edges of a black hole.

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Decided to test the waters in the job market after several years with the same company — was very concerned that my efforts would just end up in an HR black hole (as this is my first foray into the job market in the «age of social media»...).