Sentences with phrase «black hole at»

The «virtual telescope» is first getting up close and personal with Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.

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.

STARS plunging into the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy can explain two huge bubbles of gamma rays that NASA's Fermi space telescope discovered last year.

The finding suggests that compact binary star systems of 47 Tucanae may be ejected from the cluster before coalescing to form a large black hole at its core.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

A close encounter with the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is typically presumed the most plausible mechanism for kicking these stars out of the galaxy.

But last week, the two got as close to communicating as ever before when more than two - dozen W. M. Keck Observatory employees put the same care and attention to detail in the school's Mala'ai garden and chicken yard as they do running the telescopes that helped discover the black hole at the center of our Milky Way.

Astronomers can't find any sign of the black hole at the centre of the quasar SDSS J1011 +5442, and they couldn't be happier.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Stars forming in galaxies appear to be influenced by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, but the mechanism of how that happens has not been clear to astronomers until now.

Figure 1 Composite image showing how powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster inflated huge «bubbles» in the hot, ionized gas surrounding the galaxy (the cavities inside the blue region imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory).

If the foreground galaxy has a supermassive black hole at the center, the central image becomes much fainter (Figure 5).

Select the link below to show a spiral galaxy turning into a quasar when some material is dumped onto the supermassive black hole at the center.

This artist's impression shows the orbits of three of the stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

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.

By measuring the rapid orbits of the stars near the center of our galaxy, Dr. Ghez and her colleagues have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way from a possibility to a certainty.

We are understanding a little more about the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy and observations are also revealing that Einstein was right about his theory of general relativity.

Illustration of stray black holes floating around a supermassive black hole at the Galactic center.

The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is about ten times larger than the one in the Milky Way, and is also consuming material at a faster rate, potentially increasing its impact on the evolution of its host galaxy.

The source is actually a super-massive black hole at the center of Milky Way.

Astronomers have gotten their deepest glimpse into the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, peering closer to the supermassive black hole at the Galaxy's core then ever before.

This work is very meaningful since the possibility that a number of «stray black holes» are floating around a supermassive black hole at the Galactic center was indicated by the observational study for the first time.

Scientists have long searched for proof of the decades - old theory that black holes surround the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a supermassive black hole at its core surrounded by a central bulge of old, yellowish stars.

In time, Oka said, the object will be drawn towards Sagittarius A * and sink into it, making the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way even more massive.

«This collaborative work is an exciting step forward in our collective efforts to gain a greater understanding of our own Galaxy and Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the center of it,» added co-lead author Dr. Chris Packham, from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Radio data shows that the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is producing powerful jets of high - energy particles.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

(Also see «Black Hole at Galaxy's Heart Launches Planet - Size «Spitballs.»»)

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.

«Our galaxy is rather mild mannered and quiet and was one of the least likely galaxies to have a black hole at its center,» Ghez said at the time.

Usually, at least some stellar debris is flung outward from the black hole at very high speeds during a TDE.

Since most galaxies in the universe are believed to harbor one supermassive black hole at their center, the presence of a binary system is conclusive evidence of a galactic merger.

When gas falls toward the black hole at the center of the galaxy NGC 4151, the gas heats up and emits ultraviolet radiation, which in turn heats the ring - shaped dust cloud orbiting the black hole at a distance.

See images of new observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope showing a gas cloud ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, an «Interstellar» executive producer, worked closely with the movie's visual - effects crew to come up with an unprecedentedly realistic portrait of «Gargantua,» the monstrous black hole at the movie's core.

An artist's impression of a supermassive black hole at the centre surrounded by matter flowing onto the black hole in what is termed an accretion disk.

The supermassive black hole at the core of the spiral galaxy NGC 4151 has created an odd structure — seen here in a composite photo combining images taken by several different telescopes — that some astronomers have dubbed «The Eye of Sauron.»

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

When the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way consumes an incoming cloud of gas, NASA's Swift telescope will be on the scene.

Pulsar surveys with the SKA will discover tens of thousands of pulsars, amongst which we expect to find a pulsar in orbit around a stellar - mass black hole and pulsars in close orbit around the super-massive black hole at the Galactic Centre.

One of the main drivers of this global collaboration is to study in detail the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way.

When this happened, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the second galaxy began disrupting the first one's feeding frenzy, thereby preventing accretion — which is what made Markarian 1018 shine brightly in the first place.

The jet consists of electrons and other sub-atomic particles which are being propelled outwards by a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

On the evening of July 3, 2014, both of the mighty 10 - meter Keck Observatory telescopes were steered by Dr. Andrea Ghez and her team of observers from the UCLA Galactic Center Group to study the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

A 2008 study presented evidence for an intermediate - mass black hole at the center of Omega Centauri, based on observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon in Chile.

Their research demonstrated that three stars had accelerated by more than 250,000 miles per hour a year as they orbited the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

About 40 stars orbit within a few dozen light - hours of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The gas outflow driven by a supermassive black hole at the galactic center recently has become the focus of attention as it possibly is playing a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and black holes.

Astronomers have watched stars orbit in the gravitational pull of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's heart, and have found distant galaxies far beyond our own.