News articles tagged with 'mass'
Pulsating star mystery solved
— 24 Nov 2010 23:06 | AstronomyThe new results, from a team led by Grzegorz Pietrzynski (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Poland), appear in the 25 November…
Pushing black-hole mergers to the extreme: RIT scientists achieve 100:1 mass ratio
— 19 Nov 2010 12:11 | AstronomyScientists have simulated, for the first time, the merger of two black holes of vastly different sizes, with one mass 100 times larger than the other. This extreme mass ratio of 100:1…
Study says solar systems like ours may be common
— 29 Oct 2010 14:00 | AstronomyNearly one in four stars like the sun could have Earth-size planets, according to a University of California, Berkeley, study of nearby solar-mass stars…
Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known
— 28 Oct 2010 14:51 | AstronomyAstronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts…
Star, not so bright
— 22 Oct 2010 20:34 | AstronomyIn a galaxy far away, an exceptionally massive black hole is travelling around a massive star in an unusually tight orbit. Also odd, the star is not as bright as it should be…
How much mass makes a black hole?
— 18 Aug 2010 17:12 | AstronomyTo reach their conclusions, the astronomers looked in detail at the extraordinary star cluster Westerlund 1, located 16 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Ara (the…
Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
— 27 Jul 2010 10:13 | PhysicsNew constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab revealed…
First results from Large Hadron Collider announced
— 27 Jul 2010 09:25 | PhysicsA group of University of Toronto high-energy physicists, along with their 3,000 ATLAS colleagues, announced they have broken world records in the search for new particles as the first…
Stars just got bigger
— 22 Jul 2010 09:02 | AstronomyA team of astronomers led by Paul Crowther, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), as well as archival data from the NASA/ESA…
Fermilab's MINOS experiment suggests difference in key neutrino and antineutrino property
— 15 Jun 2010 03:06 | PhysicsScientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator laboratory today (June 14) announced the world's most precise measurement to date of the…