Sentences with phrase «violent collision»

First, the size of a bus can create a much more violent collision, and one that includes a larger number of cars.

On the side of the comet opposite the impact point, volatile substances can withstand even violent collisions.

SMASH HIT The recently detected violent collision of two neutron stars (illustrated) is helping scientists understand the strange stuff that makes up the incredibly dense objects.

But the practical technology of athletic shoes ultimately revolves around cushioning: how to protect the bones from violent collision with the earth.

HERE TODAY Violent collisions in the early solar system, illustrated here, probably broke apart would - be planets — but diamonds forged in those planets» cores may have made it to Earth as meteorites.

Overlooked in most Western art surveys, Latin American art, the fruit of violent collisions among diverse indigenous, European, and African cultures, is revealed as provocative and vibrant in Barnitz's well - illustrated and groundbreaking overview of its dazzling twentieth - century flowering.

After all, these mountains mark spots where the continent grew thick during violent collisions with other tectonic plates: the land crumpled and heaved skyward, like the hood of a car buckling in a head - on crash.

The most violent collisions happen at such high speeds that the planets could simply vaporise each other.

Take the Arena League for example: much smaller field, much less violent collisions.

The team could either punt, the most likely outcome and considered a safer play given the belief that more violent collisions tend to occur on kickoffs.

Researchers have assumed that violent collisions determine the spins of most asteroids.

The abundance of violent collisions provides reassuring evidence that there are enough rocky shards to accumulate Earth - like planets, Kenyon adds.

3 Cosmic Collision Brings Dark Matter Into View A violent collision has turned up the most direct evidence yet of dark matter...

And when violent collisions leave motorists trapped, they are tasked with shredding the vehicles so painstakingly shaped by automotive engineers.

The scientific reality is that it's all but impossible for asteroid fields to be that dense, as the constant violent collisions both start breaking the asteroids down into space dust while simultaneously spreading the asteroid field outward.

A twisted take on the real, Urs Fischer's work unabashedly declares its affiliation to such art historical movements as Pop, Surrealism, and Dada, all of which similarly toyed with the found image to create new and unanticipated combinations, shifts of scale, and a sometimes violent collision of visual information.

During a period of frequent, violent collisions among the protogalaxies, their resident black holes experienced rapid growth spurts by merging with one another and gobbling up new supplies of gas and dust.

The most violent collisions can vaporise entire worlds into gas blobs that rotate so fast that their edges reach orbital velocity and can not spin any faster.

Some say it's a contact sport, but it's not: It's a collision sport, and the more violent the collision, from the perspective of at least one team, the better.

After a violent collision, Clowney was able to hold Murray to a gain of just one yard.

Had Slaughter not caused such a violent collision at second, Smith's run would have counted.

Looking at the replay, it was a pretty clean shoulder - to - shoulder hit, it was just a violent collision.

Three months of observations with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have allowed astronomers to zero in on the most likely explanation for what happened in the aftermath of the violent collision of a pair of neutron stars in a galaxy 130 million light - years from Earth.

The simulation also may yield new insights into the violent collisions of dense objects that are predicted to send gravitational waves rippling across the universe.

However, there's still the question of how that water was able to survive such a violent collision.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers are watching a violent collision of the two spiral galaxies from a ringside seat.

Grindlay expects Swift to shed light on whether «short» gamma ray bursts, lasting just a second or so, arise from different events — such as the violent collisions of neutron stars.

McKinnon has one idea: If the Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn could pin down the nature of Titan's interior, researchers would know whether it formed hot in violent collisions — which would have produced a rocky core — or it formed cold through the quiet agglomeration of primordial debris.

Eventually, individual atoms begin colliding with each other at high speeds — having such random motion is precisely what it means to be hot, and these violent collisions convert motion energy into radiation.

The team found that, like the stars, the dark matter continued straight through the violent collisions without slowing down.

A violent collision between a pair of massive galaxy clusters 3 billion light - years from Earth has turned up the most direct evidence yet of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up 80 percent of the matter in the universe.

The cause could have been a violent collision with BN, which in turn could explain why the star ran away.

VLA observations have pointed to the most likely explanation for the phenomena that followed the violent collision of a pair of neutron stars in a galaxy 130 million light - years from Earth.

In effect, through the violent collisions, researchers are trying to chip off a tiny piece of nothing.

It had previously been proposed that the two small moons were either wandering asteroids that had been captured by Mars» gravitational influence, or satellites that had coalesced in the wake of a violent collision between the Red Planet and a large impactor.

The icy cigar was probably knocked askew by a violent collision with another object.

An air shower occurs when a fast - moving cosmic ray particle strikes an air molecule high in the atmosphere, creating a violent collision.

The solar system's strange cigar - shaped visitor «Oumuamua — Hawaiian for «scout» or «messenger» — is tumbling chaotically as the result of a violent collision.

They concluded that if these minerals indeed contain signatures of the LHB, they would have come from the impact ejecta (the materials tossed into the air by the violent collisions).

In the past, it was not possible to resolve this violent collision zone, because its extension is too small even for the largest telescopes.

The images show Eta Carinae and its violent collision of winds in stunning detail, providing new information on how stars evolve and die.

A violent collision with a space rock, like the one that doomed the dinosaurs, may have also caused our planet's greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago.

Debris from a violent collision like the one that formed our Moon would probably create enough large particles to recreate the dimming — but the likelihood of us catching such a one - off event is extremely small.

For the third time, scientists have detected a spacetime rumble caused by a violent collision of two black holes.

... Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years and dismembered by the gravity of planets, asteroid Bennu had a tough life in a rough neighborhood: the early solar system.

synestia The somewhat flattened, jelly - doughnut - like shape that some planetary scientists suspect Earth may have developed after undergoing a violent collision early in its infancy.

When you're young and foolish, you are more likely than adults to drink behind the wheel, which makes it credible that some will die — as five teens do in a violent collision with a truck that leaves all dead, including the town reverend's only son.

In a land torn by hatred and injustice, two fathers — one a man of peace, the other a man of power and privilege — whose lives seem destined for a violent collision.