Sentences with phrase «billions of light years away»

Keck Observatory's MOSFIRE collects visible - light photons from objects billions of light years away whose wavelengths have been stretched or «redshifted» to the infrared by the expansion of the Universe.

Because some galaxies are billions of light years away from us, we can discern that they formed fairly soon after the big bang (as you look deeper into space, you see further back in time).

They're billions of light years away from the Milky Way and are the most energetic objects in the universe.

The sensitivity of this camera, called Mosaic - 3, can detect objects billions of light years away.

In the image above there are around 5,500 visible galaxies, with some of them being billions of light years away and 13.2 billion years old — just 450 million years after the Big Bang and the creation of the universe.

The radio waves in question come from quasars, which are supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies billions of light years away from Earth.

It's still unknown what causes these barrages of radio waves, but at least we now know where one of them comes from — a dwarf galaxy billions of light years away.

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

It so happens that there is a galaxy roughly half way between Earth and the blazar, which is billions of light years away.

THOUGH telescopes routinely spot galaxies billions of light years away, they may be missing many in our own cosmic backyard.

We cant even see whats on the other side of the Moon, and we are led to believe about a black hole Billions of light years away based on a telescope?

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

Not exact matches

These gravitational waves were generated by two black holes — eight and 14 times the mass of the sun — merging together 1.4 billion light years away from Earth.

The fact that we can see light from such far away stars means it began its journey billions of years ago.

Therefore, spotting a galaxy that was once 13 billion light - years away (and is now much farther away because the universe is expanding) gives us a glimpse of the universe as it was 13 billion years ago.

Viewed from Earth's vicinity an exo - Earth a dozen light - years away might be about as bright as a 40 - watt lightbulb on the surface of Mars, but it would also be adjacent to its 10 billion - times - brighter star.

The activity produces enough light to warm up most of the galaxy's dust — which gives the whole galaxy an infrared glow that we can detect from more than 12.5 billion light - years away.

A galaxy 12.5 billion light - years away gives off the light of 300 trillion suns, because its feeding black hole produces enough heat to set the whole galaxy's dust glowing.

Supermassive J0100 +2802 sits at the center of an active galaxy, called a quasar, 12.8 billion light - years away.

Physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), which has twin instruments in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, spotted a burst of gravitational waves from black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as the sun that spiraled into each other 1.3 billion light - years away.

In 2001, Charbonneau and astronomer Tim Brown of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, used this technique to «sniff» the atmosphere of a huge, broiling planet called HD 209458b, even though it is 150 light - years away — 4 billion times as distant as the moon.

«Because FRBs like the one we discovered occur billions of light - years away, they help us study the universe between us and them,» says Ravi, who is the R A and G B Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Astronomy.

But that and other far - fetched ideas may inspire the ambitious projects necessary to catch a glimpse of the core — a place just 3,950 miles below our feet and yet, in many ways, less accessible than the edge of the visible universe, 13.8 billion light - years away.

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

In another galaxy, a billion or so light - years away, two black holes collided, shaking the fabric of spacetime.

Most of these starburst galaxies are billions of light - years away, where galaxies were closer together and collisions common.

But scientists aren't worried about it making contact: It's some 8 billion light - years away from Earth and traveling at less than 1 % the speed of light.

The two black holes live roughly 3.7 billion light - years away in a quasar, the ferociously bright core of a galaxy lit up by...

Four images of the same supernova flashed in the constellation Leo as its light bent around a galaxy sitting about 6 billion light - years away between Hubble and the exploding star, researchers report in the March 6 Science.

In a galaxy 8 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole a billion times the mass of the sun is far from home.

Within days of the publication of the Keane et al study, however, Peter Williams and Edo Berger of the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics released an independent analysis casting grave doubts on the claimed linkage between the FRB and the galaxy billions of light - years away.

As detailed by Evan Keane of the international Square Kilometer Array Organization and colleagues, this separate study suggested some fraction of FRBs occur billions rather than millions of light - years away.

How do you observe galaxies that are billions of light - years away?

Astronomers spotted the space rocks — plus another two that had been previously cataloged — in images collected as part of the Frontier Fields project, which observed six clusters of galaxies billions of light - years away.

One of the galaxies you studied is 11.4 billion light - years away.

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.

Schaefer realized that only a gamma - ray burst, the most powerful type of explosion ever observed, is bright enough to give us information about conditions near the edge of the visible universe, more than 13 billion light - years away.

At the centre of a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away, a supermassive black hole was devouring a star that had strayed too close, tearing it apart to spark a gargantuan swirling firework.

«Fast radio burst tied to distant dwarf galaxy, and perhaps magnetar: First localization of mysterious bursts pinpoints galaxy 3 billion light years away.»

A sudden flare - up observed late last year in a quasar - like object about 3 billion light years away is lending support to the idea that such objects may contain a pair of enormous black holes.

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs): a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

As part of its Frontier Fields program, Hubble observed a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1 - 2403, located roughly 4 billion light - years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns.

They trained the 10 - meter Keck telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on a cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, about 6 billion light - years away.

The galaxy Hu and her team found has a redshift of 6.56, putting it about 15.5 billion light - years away, so this light dates back to just 780 million years after the big bang.

In contrast, the afterglow of the big bang provides a kind of celestial wallpaper that's about 45 billion light - years away.

The most distant black hole known, nearly 13 billion light - years away, is the white spot in the middle of this false - color image.

Astronomers affiliated with the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have discovered two of the brightest and most distant supernovae ever recorded, 10 billion light - years away and a hundred times more luminous than a normal supernova.

They're located at a distance of something like 13.1 billion light years away!