Sentences with phrase «in ordinary galaxies»

In ordinary galaxies the black hole would grow at the same rate as the galaxy, but in SAGE0536AGN the black hole has grown much faster, or the galaxy stopped growing prematurely.

The team used this to calculate the mass of the hot DOGs» central black holes, which are heavier relative to the surrounding stars than black holes in an ordinary galaxy (Astrophysical Journal, doi.org/h8g).

The presence of a black hole in an ordinary galaxy like M32 may mean that inactive black holes are common to the centers of galaxies.

Not exact matches

Yes indeed, God created the entire universe, yet one of his chief concerns seems to be whether a bunch of violent apes on a speck of dust orbiting an ordinary middle - aged star in an unremarkable galaxy are touching themselves.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

A pair of papers report some of the best signs yet of hot gas in the spaces between galaxy clusters, possibly enough to represent the half of all ordinary matter previously unaccounted for.

In this case, Hubble observed how the gravity of this cluster distorted the light from more distant galaxies, and determined that the cluster's ordinary matter couldn't account for all of the distortion.

In the early universe, astronomers believe, dark matter provided the gravitational scaffolding on which ordinary matter coalesced and grew into galaxies.

For instance, one theory holds that when the quark - gluon soup turned into more ordinary matter, it did so in lumps that eventually gave rise to galaxies and clusters of galaxies.

When iPTF14hls was discovered in September 2014 by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, which scans the sky regularly with a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, it looked like an ordinary type 2 supernova in a galaxy about 500 million light - years away.

In fact, a whopping 96 per cent of it is made of something whose very nature we are at a loss to describe — something utterly unlike the ordinary matter that makes up stars and galaxies, planets and moons, birds and bees.

Later on in life, it looks like the magnetars we see in our galaxy, which have extremely strong magnetic fields but rotate more like ordinary pulsars.»

In those theories, the gravity from ordinary matter remains strong at greater distances than predicted by Newton and Einstein, which prevents galaxies from flying apart.

The fluctuations also created variations in temperature of the CMB across the sky, from which cosmologists have determined the content of the universe in terms of ordinary matter, mysterious dark matter whose gravity binds the galaxies, and weird space - stretching dark energy.

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

«We are now fully confident that one of the most popular supernova remnants detected in our galaxy was produced by an ordinary type Ia supernova that was first detected more than 400 years ago,» write Andrea Pastorello of Queen's University Belfast and Ferdinando Patat of the European Southern Observatory in Germany in a commentary on the study.

The most recent addition to the tour, discovered just last year, involves what appears to be a giant plume of antimatter — a fountain of particles identical to ordinary matter except that they have the opposite electric charge — shooting up from the core and straight out of the disk of the galaxy as far as 5,000 light - years, where the antimatter jet meets clouds of ordinary matter, and both are annihilated in a burst of energy.

As stated in Scientific American, ``... the formation of «ordinary» spiral and elliptical galaxies is apparently still out of reach of most redshift surveys.»

Painstaking measurements of the cosmic microwave background — the omnipresent radiation that is the afterglow of the Big Bang — tells us that a sixth of all matter in our galaxy is ordinary, while the rest is dark matter.

Overall, the study confirms that supermassive black holes must exist in the majority of ordinary galaxies.

These filaments, spanning across millions of light - years — much larger than the largest galaxies — constitute the cosmic web, and account for most of the ordinary matter (as opposed to dark matter) in the universe.