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- adjective astronomy Moving towards a massive
astronomical body under the influence ofgravity
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Evidence for 'infalling' gas came from the radio telescope's detection of two kinds of molecules in the cloud - HCO+ and H13CO+.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Evidence for "infalling" gas came from the radio telescope's detection of two kinds of molecules in the cloud - HCO+ and H13CO+.
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Evidence for 'infalling' gas came from the radio telescope's detection of two kinds of molecules in the cloud - HCO+ and H13CO+.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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This is the theoretical surface that cloaks the black hole and marks the point of no return for infalling matter or light.
Discourse.net: Shadows on Plato's Cave: Giant Hologram Version 2009
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Bacteria have also been shown to be able to survive virtually hard vacuum, which raises the interesting possibility that the earliest living cells originated in cracks in rocks in space, and arrived on Earth via infalling bolides.
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The jet of the black hole represents in this situation the "release valve" of momentum from infalling matter.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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In effect infalling matter must change its angular momentum direction by “mining” the energy of angular momentum in the black hole.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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So the portion of matter which escapes does so with greater mass-energy than what was contained by the infalling mass-energy.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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My goodness, they have several groups of clusters listed supposedly related to infalling galactic systems.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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Although this cannot confirm the prediction of such youthful flares being due to infalling material as opposed to magnetic fields or interactions with a companion it does show that BLAST and its successor, Herschel, will be a powerful tool for further study.
New Studies on the Vela Star Forming Region | Universe Today 2010
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