Sentences with phrase «bright galaxy core»

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a type of extremely bright galaxy core seemingly fueled by powerful black holes actively gobbling large amounts of material.

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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...

Quasars are bright cores of distant active galaxies.

The new research examines the Arches cluster, a stunning nest of bright stars near the galaxy's core.

The «jury» didn't know which galaxies were active and which ones were quiet, as the Hubble images had been processed to hide the telltale bright cores.

Such clusters have very dense cores, each containing a massive galaxy called the «brightest cluster galaxy» (BCG).

Quasars are incredibly bright powerhouses of radiation that are believed to be fueled by gas falling into a massive black hole at the core of a galaxy.

The ideal background «lights» for such a study are quasars, which are very distant bright cores of active galaxies powered by black holes.

But recently, a survey has found several quasars — bright cores of galaxies, powered by matter falling into a supermassive black hole — that existed less than a billion years after the big bang.

A lack of stars close to the galactic center distinguishes massive galaxies from standard elliptical galaxies, which are much brighter in their cores.

The large amount of star formation and the «beads on a string» feature in the core of SpARCS1049 +56 are likely the result of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in the process of gobbling up a gas - rich spiral galaxy.

Astronomers were surprised when the VLA revealed that a bright new object has appeared near the core of a famous galaxy.

(Final row right): 7 Billion Years - The merged galaxies form a huge elliptical galaxy, its bright core dominating the nighttime sky.

Many distant galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores, and those black holes power «central engines» that produce bright emission.

«Is this bright infrared light caused by the black - hole - powered core of the galaxy or by a huge burst of star formation?

This illustration reveals the celestial fireworks deep inside the crowded core of a developing galaxy, as seen from a hypothetical planetary system consisting of a bright, white star and single planet.

This map shows the positions of 118 of the brightest galaxies in the core of this cluster.

Then, using the twin 10 - meter optical and infrared telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the astronomers singled out 10 bright globular clusters (large compact groups of stars orbiting the galaxy's core) and used spectral data to measure their motions.

Analysis of data collected by the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey showed a bright quasar located far from its galaxy's core.

New radio images of galaxies with bright quasar cores show that, though the galaxies appear normal in visible - light images, their gas has been disrupted by encounters with other galaxies.

In x-ray emission, SN 3006gy was also nearly as bright as the core of host galaxy NGC 1260, but not bright enough for a Type - Ia supernova (more).