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  • Thumbnail for Superluminal motion
    In astronomy, superluminal motion is the apparently faster-than-light motion seen in some radio galaxies, BL Lac objects, quasars, blazars and recently...
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  • Faster-than-light (superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed...
    68 KB (8,063 words) - 22:35, 3 May 2024
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    Readhead, A. C. S.; Seielstad, G. A.; Simon, R. S.; Walker, R. C. (1981). "Superluminal expansion of quasar 3C273". Nature. 290 (5805): 365. Bibcode:1981Natur...
    16 KB (1,655 words) - 19:36, 7 March 2024
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    hole. It has an apparent superluminal motion of four times the speed of light relative to the galaxy center. Apparent superluminal motion is consistent with...
    27 KB (2,576 words) - 19:49, 25 April 2024
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    Nearest Black Hole". National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Retrieved 30 August 2008. A Black Hole in the Superluminal Source SAX J1819.3-2525 (V4641 SGR)...
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    light. However, no information can be sent using this effect. So-called superluminal motion is seen in certain astronomical objects, such as the relativistic...
    144 KB (15,331 words) - 08:14, 21 April 2024
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    relativistic jet, making this a microquasar system. The jet exhibits apparent superluminal motion. It was discovered on August 15, 1992 by the WATCH all-sky monitor...
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  • on the observer plane exhibit apparent superluminal motions with speeds up to 20 c. Such apparent superluminal motion from relativistic emitters such...
    39 KB (4,102 words) - 16:56, 25 April 2024
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    radio emission comes from relativistic jets, often showing apparent superluminal motion. Microquasars are very important for the study of relativistic...
    14 KB (1,706 words) - 13:09, 1 May 2024
  • Greek lowercase letter gamma). Sometimes (especially in discussion of superluminal motion) the factor is written as Γ (Greek uppercase-gamma) rather than...
    13 KB (1,694 words) - 12:01, 6 April 2024
  • appear to be superluminal due to relativistic effects and line-of-sight orientation. Such quasars are sometimes referred to as superluminal quasars. Quasars...
    69 KB (4,738 words) - 21:53, 26 April 2024
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    observations of M87* that resulted in the first image of a black hole. Apparent superluminal motion was detected during observations first made in 1973 in a jet of...
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    subluminal, but the speed at which a spacecraft could move would be superluminal, thereby rendering possible interstellar flight, such as a visit to Proxima...
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    A warp drive or a drive enabling space warp is a fictional superluminal (faster than the speed of light) spacecraft propulsion system in many science fiction...
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  • objects or phenomenon from a particular perspective. Examples include superluminal motion, the retrograde motion of the planets, and optical double stars...
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    Martin Rees (category Plumian Professors of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy)
    the first to propose that enormous black holes power quasars, and that superluminal astronomical observations can be explained as an optical illusion caused...
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    short timescales (hours to days). Some blazar jets appear to exhibit superluminal motion, another consequence of material in the jet traveling toward the...
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    Militarisation of space Private spaceflight Billionaire space race Applications Astronomy Earth observation Archaeology Imagery and mapping Reconnaissance Weather...
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    has been found to be a variable source in all wavelengths and hosts a superluminal jet. The galaxy was discovered in 1940 by Harlow Shapley and C. M. Hanley...
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    this view is that no subluminal Hubble volume will exist and pointwise superluminal expansion (the generalization of the Big Bang theory) will prevail everywhere...
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