Sentences with phrase «center of the galaxy»

A sky survey image of the massive galaxy NGC 1600, and a Hubble Space Telescope closeup of the bright center of the galaxy where the 17 - billion - solar - mass black hole — or binary black hole — resides.

The bright center of the galaxy is thought to be caused by the ejection of huge amounts of super-hot gas from the region around a central black hole.

He and his colleagues focused on the K - alpha emission line of iron, visible in the spectra of many active galactic nuclei (AGN)-- the brilliant centers of these galaxies.

The resulting sharp observations clearly showed that the closer the stars were to the very center of the galaxy, the faster they orbited; and the innermost stars were moving as fast as.5 percent the speed of light, or about 900 miles per second.

No, Jesus is not at the physical center of the galaxy.

Far beyond the pair, immense dusty hydrogen clouds form an obscuring backdrop, while Scorpius's leftmost edge marks the direction to the turbulent center of our galaxy.

The three bands then correspond to the galactic center of a galaxy in the Hubble field and the interacting galaxy, the center of a bright star in the Magellanic cloud and a star cluster and the last band corresponds to the white dwarf in the Helix and Cat's eye nebulae.

To make the observation, a team of astronomers from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York state, along with colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, studied polarized light emanating from the known active center of galaxy PG 1700 +158, located about 3 billion light - years away.

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

ALMA's light - gathering capabilities increase the EHT's ability to detect the faint light from the very center of our galaxy.

In the search bar, type «Galactic Center» to find the true center of the galaxy.

The scientists found a desolate chunk of space surrounding the center of our galaxy that is devoid of young stars, which contradicts recent work done on the region.

If we were slightly closer to the sun, if our solar system was slightly closer to (or further away from) the center of the galaxy, life could not exist on earth.

He did it simply by recognizing that the Sun rather than the Earth was the Center of our galaxy.

It is great interest that our solar system (and earth) is located between spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy, some 28,000 light years from the center of the galaxy.

Jesus is the center of our galaxy.

no difference whether you, the earth the sun,, the center of our galaxy etc..

The Mormon god lives on the planet Kolob at he center of the galaxy with his many wives, and HE doesn't like to be disrespected.

To calculate the local gravitational constant according to Whitehead's theory, Will assumes that all the mass of our galaxy (1011 solar masses) is concentrated at a point 20,000 light - years from the earth — the distance of the earth from the center of the galaxy.

Note, I actually didn't crunch the numbers, so I could be wrong that our local cluster has stronger gravitational impact than the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Yes, we have the telescopes to measure the positions of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy.

For one thing, the energy produced when matter falls into the black hole may heat up the surrounding gas at the center of the galaxy, thus preventing cooling and halting star formation.

But if you have clusters of black holes at the centers of galaxies, there are mechanisms by which some could rapidly grow, form binaries and merge with each other.»

SEEING DOUBLE A recently discovered binary black hole might instead be a single one with jets that are much smaller than those seen erupting from this black hole in the center of galaxy Centaurus A.

All the information astrophysicists need is right there, at the center of our galaxy.»

Look farther south and a bit left, and you'll see ruddy Antares, which roughly marks the direction toward the center of our galaxy.

Last year, astronomers turned to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy to watch it tear apart a dusty gas cloud called G2.

Those stars are orbiting the center of the galaxy much faster than expected based on the estimated heft of its visible matter, suggesting Dragonfly 44 as a whole is more massive than meets the eye and is thus chock - full of dark matter.

The cloud of gas and dust venturing toward the center of our galaxy will be stretched and shredded by our local black hole.

Gas bubbles (orange) rapidly burst from the centers of galaxies, where supermassive black holes drive intergalactic winds that stir up gas for hundreds of thousands of light - years.

The skinny black line on a plot of stellar rotation speed versus distance was expected to go down — stars close to the galactic center should orbit faster than stars at the edge because all the mass concentrated at the center of the galaxy pulls most powerfully on the closest stars.

In January 2012, Christoph Weniger, a physicist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, started noticing hints of a strange type of radiation around the center of our galaxy.

Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.

The American, Korean and Australian partners involved with the GMT will take advantage of the telescope's Southern Hemisphere location to study the otherwise hidden Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — two of the Milky Way's nearest neighbor galaxies — and the black hole in the center of our galaxy.

I believe that the nearest known black hole is near the center of our galaxy, about 50,000 light - years from here.

Such counterparts are dependably seen in the wake of comparably energetic cosmic explosions, including both stellar - scale cataclysms — supernovae, magnetar flares, and gamma - ray bursts — and episodic or continuous accretion activity of the supermassive black holes that commonly lurk in the centers of galaxies.

«Emission from the center of a galaxy has a serpentine shape: Researchers have discovered a peculiar spiral jet with many twists.»

Repeating this process for a sequence of positions from the center of the galaxy out to its visible edge allowed astronomers to determine rotation speeds at various distances.

«I had heard there was this trouble understanding the so - called galactic rotation curves, which describe the way stars rotate around the centers of galaxies,» he says.

The doomed galaxies would have been pulled apart like taffy if they plunged through the center of the galaxy cluster where gravitational tidal forces are strongest.

And little «dwarf galaxies» aren't as abundant and the centers of galaxies aren't as dense as the simulations suggest.

«With three lensed quasars — cosmic beacons emanating from massive black holes in the centers of galaxies — collaborators and I measured the expansion rate to 3.8 percent precision.

The small black holes, already numerous near the galaxy's crowded center, would fling nearby stars into space, robbing the small black holes of energy and making them sink deeper toward the center of the galaxy.

In 1997 a detector aboard the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory analyzed a geyser of positrons near the center of our galaxy.

Most black holes lie quietly — if voraciously — at the center of their galaxies, slurping up the occasional passing star.

However, there is a chance that the object is actually much closer to us than the center of the galaxy.