Sentences with phrase «by supermassive black holes at the centers»

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

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.

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.

The picture, pinned above his desk, shows a bright orange and yellow blob — the glow of cosmic gas as it gets devoured by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Not exact matches

The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.

Quasars are caused by the close encounter of two supermassive black holes, each with billions of solar masses and crammed into tight quarters at the center of a galaxy.

At the center of our galaxy, in the immediate vicinity of its supermassive black hole, is a region wracked by powerful tidal forces and bathed in intense ultraviolet light and X-ray radiation.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way also betrays its presence by its influence on nearby stars.

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.

Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.

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 gCenter Group to study the supermassive black hole at the center of our gcenter of our galaxy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Quasars are among the most luminous objects in the universe, and generally are believed to be powered by material being drawn into a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, releasing large amounts of energy.

The predicted size of the shadow cast by the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way is about 50 microarcseconds (that is one fifty millionth of an arcsecond, which is 1 / 3600th of a degree!).

This illustration provided by Columbia University shows the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A, located at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, surrounded by a cloud of dust and gas within which are 12 smaller black hole...