Sentence examples for massive companion from inspiring English sources

The surface of HDE 226868 is being tidally distorted by the gravity of the massive companion, forming a tear-drop shape that is further distorted by rotation.

HD 217107 c's existence was hypothesized in 1998 due to the eccentricity of the inner planet's orbit and confirmed in 2005 when radial velocity studies of the star indicated another, more distant and massive companion orbiting the star.

Tidal stripping proves to be a viable origin for compact elliptical galaxies, even where no massive companions remain nearby.

This event is more likely for more massive companions.

Core-collapse is thought to occur when the more massive stars in a globular cluster encounter their less massive companions.

"Our discovery suggests many more black holes with massive companions may exist in the form of quiescent Be binaries".

According to their model, the merger was triggered by the gravitational interaction with a massive third companion star, which is the current ({sim}30M_{odot}) companion star in Eta Carinae.

If the body has a massive nearby companion, then tidal forces come into effect as well, distorting it into a prolate spheroid.

In "Little Joe with Cow," Kuniyoshi fuses a serene boy with a massive bovine companion, while the surrounding landscape seems to swirl around them.

Louise Webster and Paul Murdin, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Charles Thomas Bolton, working independently at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory, announced the discovery of a massive hidden companion to HDE 226868 in 1971.

"It is important to note that only [one other] black hole with a massive stellar companion is known in the galaxy — the bright X-ray source Cyg X-1," study lead author Jorge Casares, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in the Canary Islands, told SPACE.com via email.