Sentence examples for spinning star from inspiring English sources

In one popular theory, a burst occurs when a very massive, rapidly spinning star collapses to form a black hole.

They were identified with the orbiting gas and the spinning star, although theorists have later come up with alternative explanations.

As a PhD student, Bell Burnell noticed the first pulsar, a spinning star made up of neutrons, but it was her male superviser and a colleague who won the Nobel prize in 1974, but not Bell Burnell.

Later, as a PhD student at Cambridge University, Bell Burnell was part of the team that discovered the first pulsar, a spinning star made up of neutrons – in fact it was she who noticed the first one (and the second, third and fourth) because she was responsible for analysing the data.

The gas piles up on the spinning star and ignites in fierce bursts every few hours.

Theorists believe that so-called "long" gamma ray bursts--lasting longer than a few seconds--arise when a massive spinning star collapses to form a black hole.

Collapsed spinning stars called pulsars send out electromagnetic blips with such regularity that they were once mistaken for alien beacons.

Both the centrifugal force and the apparently spinning stars would be indications that the merry-go-round is, in fact, turning on its axis.

The bursts are probably triggered when massive, rapidly spinning stars collapse into black holes.

Tiny wobbles in x-rays from matter being pulled toward neutron stars may be a sign that these spinning stars are dragging huge swaths of space with them.

The measurements will help astronomers to better understand the insides of rapidly spinning stars, says team member Pierre Kervella of the European Southern Observatory ESOO).