When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_astronomy

    Examples of MACHOs include black holes or neutron stars as well as brown dwarfs and rogue planets. magnetic switchback A sudden reversals in the magnetic field of the solar wind. magnetosphere A mostly convex region formed when a plasma, such as the solar wind, interacts with the magnetic field of a body, such as a planet or star. magnitude

  3. List of black holes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_black_holes

    OJ 287 core black holes — a BL Lac object with a candidate binary supermassive black hole core system [23] PG 1302-102 – the first binary-cored quasar — a pair of supermassive black holes at the core of this quasar [24] [25] SDSS J120136.02+300305.5 core black holes — a pair of supermassive black holes at the centre of this galaxy [26]

  4. Stellar collision - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_collision

    Any stars in the universe can collide, whether they are "alive", meaning fusion is still active in the star, or "dead", with fusion no longer taking place. White dwarf stars, neutron stars , black holes , main sequence stars , giant stars , and supergiants are very different in type, mass, temperature, and radius, and accordingly produce ...

  5. Binary black hole - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_black_hole

    A binary black hole (BBH), or black hole binary, is a system consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other. Like black holes themselves, binary black holes are often divided into binary stellar black holes , formed either as remnants of high-mass binary star systems or by dynamic processes and mutual capture; and binary ...

  6. There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at ...

    www.aol.com/news/could-planets-around-super...

    That black hole happens to be Sagittarius A*, the one at the middle of the Milky Way. The finding not only sheds light on such stars, and how they might be able to survive such extreme environments.

  7. Astronomical naming conventions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming...

    Supermassive black holes receive the designation of the galaxy whose core they reside in. Examples are NGC 4261, NGC 4151 and M31, which derive their designation from the New General Catalogue and the list of Messier objects. Other black holes, such as Cygnus X-1 – a highly likely stellar black hole, are cataloged by their constellation and ...

  8. Astronomers theorize what it's like when worlds (and black ...

    www.aol.com/news/2010-08-25-astronomers-theorize...

    Tight binary solar systems are inhabited in science fiction -- remember the Star Wars world of Tatooine -- but humanity might find such planets inhospitable over the long term, and not just ...

  9. Humanity gets peek at what happens inside a black hole

    www.aol.com/humanity-gets-peek-happens-inside...

    Scientists have got a peek at what is happening inside of black holes. A new model – built on gravitational waves that were first detected almost 10 years ago – indicates what is going inside ...