时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:探索与发现2013年


英语课

 The mystery of what could count for the quasars' extraordinary brightness was the hot topic in astronomy during the 1960s. As astronomers 2 began to grapple with the new enigmatic objects that had been found by the radio telescopes, one astronomer 1, keen to have a crack at the problem, was a young researcher, called Donald Lynden-Bell. 


 
The sky looked totally different in the radio than it looked in the optical. And that was a big problem and the question was what were these things? 
 
While his colleagues were staring down telescopes, Lynden-Bell approached the problem through theory. He wanted to find out how something as small as a quasar could possibly be so bright. 
 
This had an enormous quantity of energy coming out of it and it came from a very small size. Now putting these numbers together, one could already see the mass of the energy required to give the emission 3 was like ten million times the mass of the sun. 
 
But the problem was that quasars are tiny in size, were nothing like the scale of ten million suns. Lynden-Bell realizes there was only one thing that could possibly be so small yet have so much mass--those mathematical anomalies conjured 4 up by theorists that had been predicted but never observed—super-massive black holes.

n.天文学家
  • A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.新发现的一颗星引起了那位天文学家的注意。
  • He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.他以一个优秀的天文学者闻名于世。
n.天文学者,天文学家( astronomer的名词复数 )
  • Astronomers can accurately foretell the date,time,and length of future eclipses. 天文学家能精确地预告未来日食月食的日期、时刻和时长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Astronomers used to ask why only Saturn has rings. 天文学家们过去一直感到奇怪,为什么只有土星有光环。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.发出物,散发物;发出,散发
  • Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施,降低污染物排放总量。
  • Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后,指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。
用魔术变出( conjure的过去式和过去分词 ); 祈求,恳求; 变戏法; (变魔术般地) 使…出现
  • He conjured them with his dying breath to look after his children. 他临终时恳求他们照顾他的孩子。
  • His very funny joke soon conjured my anger away. 他讲了个十分有趣的笑话,使得我的怒气顿消。