Sentences with phrase «with mass»

This corresponds roughly to the diameter of our solar system or to that of a black hole with a mass of one billion solar masses.

But recently it was observed that the mass of a central black hole correlates with the mass of the galaxy around it!

The particle is part of the mechanism that endows all other particles with mass.

Working with mass - spectroscopy specialists at the French national research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette and with scientists at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, they used two types of mass spectroscopy and two methods of x-ray scanning.

Scientists think these structures may have formed as a result of past outbursts from the black hole — with a mass of 4 million suns — residing in the heart of our galaxy.

Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the Department of Geoscience at UW — Madison, with the mass spectrometer used to measure isotopes in rocks from South Africa.

If you had visited Earth during the Triassic Period, which began with a mass extinction 250 million years ago (see «The Day Everything Died,» page 64), you would have encountered the ancestors of today's lizards, turtles, and alligators.

In this framework the lightest neutral superpartner particle — with a mass at least 50 times that of a proton — is the neutralino.

Working with mass spectrometers, where you can apply physics and chemistry to try to understand rocks from Earth and other planets, brought together everything I wanted to do and to learn about.

The mergers that formed NGC 1316 led to an influx of gas, which fuels an exotic astrophysical object at its centre: a supermassive black hole with a mass roughly 150 million times that of the Sun.

Breakthrough Starshot aims to send thousands of «wafersats», each with a mass of just a few grams, to Alpha Centauri,...

All this allowed the team to conclude that the object, an asteroid 17 to 20 metres across and with a mass of 10,000 tonnes, exploded at an altitude of about 30 kilometres.

The flux detected at 0.8 μm is also consistent with that of a planet with mass no greater than a few times that of Jupiter.

With the mass increase in plastic production, the idea that waste can be contained in a few - acre landfill or dealt with later is no longer viable.

The note purported to show preliminary evidence for gamma rays from a decaying Higgs particle with a mass of about 115 gigaelectronvolts, some 115 times heavier than a proton.

In February, two teams saw extra X-rays in data from two telescopes, and a sterile neutrino with a mass of 7 kiloelectronvolts could explain the sighting.

Such a density would have been enough to create black holes a mere 1035 meter across (a dimension known as the Planck length) with a mass of 108 kilogram (the Planck mass).

The laws of physics may permit a neutrino with a mass to change from one type into another, so electron neutrinos may simply transform themselves into undetectable muon or tau neutrinos before they fly across the 150 million kilometres of space between the Sun and the Earth.

According to Newton, gravity is a force that acts invisibly and instantaneously between any objects with mass.

So, any gravitational object — anything with mass — acts as a magnifying glass,» though a weak one.

With a mass of 100 million times more than our Sun, this is the largest black hole caught in this act so far.

And what's more, the theory fitted well with what physicists expected might happen if dark matter was made up of relatively lightweight particles, with a mass of about 10 to 50 gigaelectronvolts (GeV).

The cause of the present flood has to do with the mass of water vapor in the air, which is partly the result of higher air temperature.

As these neutrinos pass through the planet, they interact with atoms, creating muons — positive or negative particles with a mass much greater than an electron's.

With a mass approximately 23 times that of our Earth, the exoplanet GJ436b rotates around its star in only three days and has an atmosphere which leaves behind a gigantic trail of hydrogen.

Several years ago, an experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, turned up evidence of what appeared to be a sterile neutrino with a mass of about 1 electron volt.

With a mass 11 % that of Earth, Mars is definitely undersized.

When the researchers analyzed the resulting products with mass spectroscopy, they detected an unusually stable molecule with exactly 60 carbons; later, they worked out its spherical shape.

The LHC is designed to find the hypothetical particles (most notably the Higgs boson, believed to endow other particles with mass) that would back up that theory.

Anything with mass warps the nearby space, so as light passes near that massive object, its path bends, following the warps.

In the end, his publisher's commercial instincts won out, and his book on the particle thought to endow the universe with its mass ended up with a rather more grandiose title: The God Particle.

A black hole with a mass 100 million times that of our sun, like the one in MCG -6-30-15, would have a circumference of more than 100 million miles, yet it could be rotating once every hour and three - quarters.

To Newton, light was made of particles with mass, and gravity was a force exerted by massive objects on one another.

With this method, they identified and sequenced 48 potential CAMPs with mass spectrometry.

The CMS collaboration found evidence for a new particle with a mass of 125.3 GeV.

«These waves are caused by massive collisions between objects with a mass far greater than our sun.

Fusion simply means the combining of light nuclei to make a bigger nucleus with a mass deficit, and that mass deficit shows up as heat.

Last July, the teams working on ATLAS and another detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), announced compelling evidence for the Higgs boson, a long - predicted particle and part of the proposed mechanism that endows other particles with mass (see Nature 487, 147 — 148; 2012).

Among the new particles emerging from the collider's mini-fireballs, physicists hope to find the Higgs boson, which according to theory is responsible for endowing all other particles with mass.

Black holes vary enormously in size, from Goliaths with the mass of a million stars to the literally microscopic.

As it melts, sea levels around it will fall, say Natalya Gomez and Jerry Mitrovica of Harvard University and colleagues: with the mass of ice shrinking, its gravitational pull on the seawater will be weaker.

Working with the mass media should be seen as an opportunity and not a hazard,» Scherzler says.

The field imparts particles with mass by exerting a sort of drag on them, slowing them down much like a human being slows down when she tries to walk through water instead of air.

Such a particle or particles would look much like the Higgs predicted by theorists and could do the job of helping to endow other particles with mass, but might differ in important ways that would hint at new physics beyond the current set of predictions.

GENEVA — The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.

They thought hard about the potential capabilities of a 10 - centimeter cube with a mass limit of 1 kilogram and found the perfect life - size demonstration model: a plastic box used for storing Beanie Babies.

ATLAS physicists said that their most recent data reveal the presence of an unknown particle with a mass of about 126.5 GeV, or 126.5 billion electron - volts.

Quick with a smile and even faster with a pun, native New Yorker Stephen Morse doesn't seem like a man preoccupied with mass killers.

This so - called Higgs field essentially drags on certain particles and imparts them with mass.

Astronomers have just spied a black hole with a mass 1 billion times the sun's hurtling toward our galaxy.