Sentences with phrase «distant galaxy j1415»

The end result is a much better look at a distant galaxy than we can get with technology alone.

VLBA images detect orbital motion of two supermassive black holes as they circle each other at the center of a distant galaxy.

«Hubble finds extremely distant galaxy through cosmic magnifying glass.»

An analysis of the distant galaxy shows that it measures merely 850 light - years across, 500 times smaller than the Milky Way, and is estimated to have a mass of only 40 million suns.

As a result, light coming from a distant galaxy will be deflected by otherwise invisible globs of dark matter, causing it to appear stretched and deformed.

Tonry's method exploits the fact that a nearby galaxy looks coarse and grainy, whereas a distant galaxy looks smooth.

These galaxies have red shifts similar to those of the distant galaxy, so they probably lie close to it.

The source was traced to a distant galaxy, so far away that its light took around 3.9 billion years to reach Earth.

Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole.

Several ground - based microwave telescopes, such as the South Pole Telescope, are tracking how the structure of very distant galaxy clusters grew in the early Universe under the influence of gravity.

In February, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed one extremely distant galaxy behind a large cluster called Abell 2218.

If a distant galaxy were made of antimatter, it would constantly be producing gamma - rays as it encountered the matter in the intergalactic gas clouds that exist throughout galaxy clusters.

This provides an independent test for astronomers» usual methods of estimating distant galaxy masses — which rely on extrapolation from their nearby cousins.

The flare from a recent supernova has been used to map out a distant galaxy in 3D.

Light is affected by gravity, and light passing a distant galaxy will be deflected as a result.

At first it looked like another ordinary long gamma - ray burst (GRB) in a distant galaxy.

An international team studying gas clouds in a distant galaxy has found that the temperature of the gas matches almost exactly what models predicted for the young cosmos.

Last year observers found a distant galaxy that seemed to have patches of stars made up of hydrogen and helium but nothing else.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

An international team used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope array to observe gas clouds in a very distant galaxy.

Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

The newest target of Hubble's mission is the distant galaxy cluster Abell S1063, potentially home to billions of strange new worlds.

If the light from a distant galaxy reaches us having passed through a cluster of say, four stars, she wondered, then how many images might we see?

The lensing effect is strong if the distant galaxy is right behind the close one, much less if the distant galaxy is significantly off - axis.

The start of a jet in the distant galaxy J1415 +1320 was magnified by a massive object in the foreground, closer to Earth.

On 21 June, a dying star in a distant galaxy unleashed a siren song of x-rays so intense it briefly blinded the x-ray telescope aboard NASA's orbiting Swift observatory.

Distant galaxy J1415 +1320 dimmed and brightened over the course of a year in 2009 and 2014 (shaded regions), causing a U-shaped dip in the data used to track its brightness.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

The bluish circle around the galaxies is the light from a more distant galaxy bending around the cluster's center due to gravity from both stars and dark matter.

Research co-author Professor Liliya Williams, of the University of Minnesota, said: «We got a higher resolution view of the distant galaxy using ALMA than from even the Hubble Space Telescope.

Such a smash - up with a red giant would unleash much more energy than the decimation of a comet, so would have to occur in a distant galaxy to avoid appearing brighter than what was observed.

Looking at a distant galaxy: the radio chart (left) shows the image of the blazar PKS 1830 - 211 distorted by the gravitational lens effect.

If a distant galaxy were lined up right behind one more close by, this warping would bend and magnify the faraway galaxy's image, a phenomenon now called gravitational lensing.

Story number 2: Astronomers have detected an energetic outburst near the constellation Sagittarius that they believe was caused by a distant galaxy in the midst of reversing the direction of its spiral rotation.

The star is much closer than the much more distant galaxy.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the international team of collaborators peered across cosmic time to observe 65 distant galaxy clusters whose light has taken billions of years to reach Earth.

In 2013 astronomers found argonium in space, first in the Crab Nebula and later in a distant galaxy via ALMA observations.

The distant galaxy, known as SDP.81, forged the equivalent of 315 of our suns each year in an era when star formation was at its maximum in the universe.

Researchers then used computer software to unwarp SPD.81's smudge and, for the first time for such a distant galaxy, discern small areas of intense star formation, some less than 150 light - years across.

The gravity of this cluster acted as a lens, bending the light from a more distant galaxy behind it and brightening it.

This view shows how the new MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a innovative three - dimensional depiction of a distant galaxy.

Researchers estimated the rate of star formation by measuring far - infrared wavelengths of light emanating from the distant galaxy.

Brian Schmidt and Robert Kirshner of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ronald Eastman of Lick Observatory in California, and their colleagues obtained a new estimate of the Hubble constant from observations of a supernova in a distant galaxy in the constellation of Cetus.

The inset is an image of an extremely faint and distant galaxy that existed only 400 million years after the big bang.

IN a distant galaxy, a star unexplodes.

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

«Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy.»

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

«These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after five billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time.»

It looked like the ordinary glow of a distant galaxy — the one, presumably, that had emitted the sudden burst.