Sentence examples for compact objects from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, one could observe a pair of neutron stars or black holes – both massive but highly compact objects – in close orbit.

Astronomers compared X-ray emissions from matter in the vicinities of six neutron stars, extremely compact objects without event horizons, with six candidate black holes.

During his entire career, Van Paradijs studied high-energy radiation and compact objects like neutron stars and black holes.

During my undergraduate course I studied many interesting and relevant subjects: relativity, cosmology, compact objects, and (of course) instrumentation.

Excluding compact objects, all other stars are assumed to have convective envelopes.

In this study, we develop a system that recognizes such structured and compact objects like bridges or roundabouts.

Dr. Stephen S. Murray of the Harvard-Smithsonian Cambridger Astrophysics in CaMass.ge, Masaid said the Chandra observations of the Andromeda galaxy had pinpointed X-rays emanating from the galaxy's central black hole, a known compact object with the mass of 30 million suns.

The Hubble telescope observed pulses of ultraviolet light from clumps of hot gas as they faded and then disappeared around a compact object known as Cygnus X-1, another suspected black hole.

Dr. Greenstein and Dr. Schmidt concluded, rightly as it seems now, that the energy source for these beasts could only be tremendous amounts of matter pouring into a compact object that is now called a black hole.

That the emission is often in the form of a burst is probably caused by something interrupting the flow of matter onto (or into) the compact object or by an eclipsing orbit of the binary system.

The accretor can be a forming star or planet, a normal star, or a compact object such as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole (in approximate order of increasing compactness).