Sentences with phrase «bigger galaxies grow»

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While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

These gas - filled limbs are often where new stars form, and can constrain how big a galaxy's central black hole grows.

It is one of the biggest in our galaxy, and may offer insight into how these objects can grow so big.

Stars can grow no bigger than 150 times as massive as our sun, according to a study of the dazzling «Arches» cluster near the center of our galaxy — shown here in an artist's impression.

The idea is that the bigger the Milky Way grows, the more new galaxies it could attract, growing larger still.

The finding suggests that supermassive black holes sprung up surprisingly quickly after the Big Bang and grew faster than the galaxies surrounding them.

The fact that several such pristine galaxies turn out to have a small, still - expanding black hole at their core suggests that black holes can grow to intermediate size without mergers, but then need to pool their resources to get much bigger.

How these black holes got so big is still a mystery: did they grow gradually from mergers of smaller black holes, coalescing when their host galaxies merged?

All big galaxies in the universe host a supermassive black hole in their center and in about 10 percent of all galaxies, these supermassive black holes are growing by swallowing huge amounts of gas and dust from their surrounding environments.