Sentences with phrase «brightest galaxies in the universe»

If we have only seen the brightest galaxies in the universe, we don't have the full picture about how matter and dark matter are truly distributed.

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The [galaxy] they're most excited about is three times as luminous as any other galaxy of a similar age, making it «by far the brightest galaxy ever observed at this stage in the universe,» the ESO said.

Black holes gobble up some matter and launch the rest away in powerful jets, scattering atoms within and between galaxies; pairs of neutron stars, also targets of Advanced LIGO, may ultimately trigger gamma - ray bursts, among the brightest and most energetic explosions known in the universe.

Some research has been done to deduce the chemical makeup of very early galaxies, based on observations of very bright, distant galaxies, or of very old stars that formed in the early universe and are still around today, Hewitt said.

Previous research into star formation in the early universe has typically been biased toward massive galaxies because they're brighter.

In a paper that appeared in Physical Review Letters this week, the researchers specifically show that the lack of bright X-ray and radio sources at the center of our galaxy strongly disfavours the possibility that these objects constitute all of the mysterious dark matter in the universIn a paper that appeared in Physical Review Letters this week, the researchers specifically show that the lack of bright X-ray and radio sources at the center of our galaxy strongly disfavours the possibility that these objects constitute all of the mysterious dark matter in the universin Physical Review Letters this week, the researchers specifically show that the lack of bright X-ray and radio sources at the center of our galaxy strongly disfavours the possibility that these objects constitute all of the mysterious dark matter in the universin the universe.

The brightest lights in the universe have illuminated part of the life history of galaxies.

Such supernovae belong to the most energetic and brightest phenomena in the universe and can outshine a whole galaxy for weeks.

In today's universe, giant black holes are never naked — they're always cloaked by the bright starry centers of galaxies.

This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe — protons, neutrons and electrons — unaccounted for by previous observations of stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space.

(In fact, monster black holes at the centers of galaxies can cause matter around them to radiate so much light that they become some of the brightest objects in the universeIn fact, monster black holes at the centers of galaxies can cause matter around them to radiate so much light that they become some of the brightest objects in the universein the universe.)

Previously astronomers observed steady movements among the «brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs),» which — as the name implies — are the «most luminous galaxies in the universe.»

This phenomenon is what makes NGC 4696 stand out from among the other members of the Centaurus cluster, making it one of the biggest and brightest galaxies in the observable universe.

The resulting explosions are the brightest events in the universe and vastly outshine entire galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars.

This plot shows over one and a half million of the brightest stars and galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in infrared light.

The galaxy, EGS - zs8 - 1, was originally identified based on its particular colors in images from Hubble and Spitzer and is one of the brightest and most massive objects in the early universe.

NGC 5128 is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and one of the strangest looking galaxies in the nearby universe.

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.