Sentences with phrase «brightest known galaxy»

It's the brightest known galaxy at that distance.

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The emerging population of dim galaxies likely outnumbers, and is strikingly different from, the typical bright galaxies we know and love, challenging our conventional theories of galaxy formation and evolution.

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.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

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.

J1415 +1320 is what's known as a blazar, a bright galaxy with a gluttonous supermassive black hole at its center (SN: 3/4/17, p. 13).

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

Although both galaxy types host voracious supermassive black holes known as active galactic nuclei, which actively swallow matter and emit massive amounts of radiation, Type I galaxies appear brighter to astronomers» telescopes.

The new mega-galaxy, dubbed HXMM01, is the brightest, most luminous and most gas - rich submillimeter - bright galaxy merger known.

This galaxy is one of the brightest galaxies in the sky, and although it is too faint to see with the naked eye, it is an easy galaxy to find with binoculars if you know where to look.

The newly found galaxy, named CR7, is three times brighter than the brightest distant galaxy known up to now.

Past attempts to find missing satellites around external galaxies at well - known distances have been unsuccessful because of the need for a very sensitive instrument capable of producing high - fidelity images, even in the vicinity of a bright source such as the Andromeda Galaxy.

Click to Enlarge (JPEG / 138.4 KB) This schematic image represents how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings of light, known as Einstein rings.

The astronomers had expected to find a number of ancient galaxies known as ellipticals, but instead discovered that, out of the 800,000 sample galaxies included in the study, 53 of the brightest examples were in fact spiral - shaped.

It is one of the brightest lenticular galaxies known, a category that lies somewhere between spirals and ellipticals.

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.

The view of the center of our galaxy with a closer view of the object known as Sagittarius A *, the bright radio source that corresponds to the supermassive black hole.

«The Coalsack was also known as the Black Magellanic Cloud or «Macula Magellani» (Magellan's Spot), in reference to the Magellanic Clouds, bright dwarf galaxies visible in the southern sky.

CLICK ON IMAGE: This schematic represents how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings of light, known as Einstein rings.

Excluding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which can't be seen from northerly latitudes, the Andromeda galaxy — also known as M31 — is the brightest galaxy in all the heavens.

The constellation is known for the Great Square of Pegasus, a familiar asterism in the northern sky, as well as for a number of bright stars and deep sky objects, among them Messier 15 (NGC 7078, Cumulo de Pegaso), Stephan's Quintet of galaxies, the Einstein Cross (a gravitationally lensed quasar), and the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 7742.