Sentences with phrase «active black holes at»

Her dissertation work focused on studying and modeling the extremely energetic outflows from active black holes at galactic centers.

This may explain why jellyfish galaxies seem more likely than other types of galaxies to have active black holes at their centres.

That grim scenario has become more likely based on a new survey of galaxies hosting active black holes at their centers.

Not exact matches

The black hole at the centre of an active galaxy feeds on a circling disc of gas.

But Alastair Edge at Durham University, UK, isn't convinced there are active black holes in the galaxies examined.

The current model of active galaxies such as M87 posits that each one harbors at its center a black hole many millions or even billions of times more massive than our own sun, all packed into a space about the size of our solar system.

On Friday at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Glasgow, U. K., Bluck will report that the most active supermassive black holes release staggering amounts of radiation during their most energetic periods, which can last hundreds of millions of years — enough, he says, «to strip apart every massive galaxy in the universe at least 25 times over.»

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To measure the mass and growth rate of these galaxies» active nuclei — the supermassive black holes at the galaxies» centers — the researchers used data from 12 different ground - based telescopes spread across the globe to complement the data from the Swift satellite.

Known as Seyfert galaxies, these are another type of active galaxy with relatively low mass black holes residing at their centers.

Active, supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies tend to fall into two categories: those that are hidden by dust, and those that are exposed.

Blazars are active galactic nuclei — energetic regions surrounding massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

In these galaxies, stars continue to develop along the jets of active black holes, albeit at a moderate rate.

Normally, an «active» galaxy — one that has a supermassive black hole at its centre — shines very brightly.

Most galaxies in the observable universe contain a supermassive black hole at their center, one that is either active and surrounded by an accretion disk of dust, gas and other debris, or is dormant — lurking at the center, patiently awaiting its next meal.

An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second - year master's student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor at the University of Tokyo, successfully captured a detailed image of high - density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called NGC 1097 at the highest sensitivity ever achieved.

A number of similar black hole exploration methods have also been proposed in optical / infrared spectra so far, but one crucial problem is that emissions at these wavelengths are absorbed by interstellar dust particles although the more active black holes contain more dust particles.

When supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies accrete matter (usually gas), they give rise to a highly energetic phenomena named Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

The team focused on seven jellyfish galaxies, and amazingly, six out of the seven jellyfish galaxies were found to host an active supermassive black hole at the center, feeding on the surrounding gas.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

«Using space VLBI, we can probe the cores of quasars and active galaxies, believed to be powered by super massive black holes,» said Dr. Robert Preston, project scientist for the U.S. Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project at JPL.