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The Jeans instability is a concept in astrophysics that describes an instability that leads to the gravitational collapse of a cloud of gas or dust. [1] It causes the collapse of interstellar gas clouds and subsequent star formation. It occurs when the internal gas pressure is not strong enough to prevent the gravitational collapse of a region ...
The most basic gravitational stability analysis is the Jeans criteria, which addresses the balance between self-gravity and thermal pressure in a gas. In terms of the two above stability conditions, the system is stable if: i) thermal pressure balances the force of gravity, and ii) if the system is compressed slightly, the outward pressure ...
Gravitational collapse of a massive star, resulting in a Type II supernova. Gravitational collapse is the contraction of an astronomical object due to the influence of its own gravity, which tends to draw matter inward toward the center of gravity. [1] Gravitational collapse is a fundamental mechanism for structure formation in the universe.
In 1942 after the British Tank Mission visit to America in April, there was some pressure from British car and commercial vehicle manufacturers to use the new Ford V8 tank engine designed by Larry Sheldrick in British tanks, rather than the Meteor then under development by Rolls-Royce from the Merlin aero engine, as they believed that an ...
The key idea in explaining the way in which structures evolve in the universe is gravitational instability. [1] If material is to be brought together to form structures, then a long-range force is required, and gravity is the only known possibility.
In an internal combustion engine, the engine block is the structure that contains the cylinders and other components. The engine block in an early automotive engine consisted of just the cylinder block, to which a separate crankcase was attached. Modern engine blocks typically have the crankcase integrated with the cylinder block as a single ...
Gas cloud being ripped apart by black hole at the centre of the Milky Way (observations from 2006, 2010 and 2013 are shown in blue, green and red, respectively). [128] Gravitational collapse occurs when an object's internal pressure is insufficient to resist the object's own gravity.
Unable to fragment and form stars, the gas cloud undergoes a gravitational collapse of the entire structure, reaching extremely high matter density at its core, on the order of ~10 7 g/cm 3. [14] At this density, the object undergoes a general relativistic instability, [ 14 ] which leads to the formation of a black hole of a typical mass ~ 10 5 ...