Sentences with phrase «central black hole made»
After billions of years, the dwarf's central black hole made it to the galactic core and began a tight gravitational tango with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.
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«NGC 1277's black hole could be many times more massive than its largest known compete tor, which is estimated but not confirmed to be between 6 billion and 37 billion solar masses in size.It makes up about 59 percent of its host galaxy's central mass — the bulge of stars at the core.
Like every major galaxy, it has a supermassive black hole in its core — specifically, Andromeda's has a hefty 100 million times the mass of the Sun, making it far larger than our own Milky Way's 4 million mass central black hole.
A leading theory is that star - making materials are scattered by torrents of energy released by a galaxy's central supermassive black hole as it sloppily devours matter.
«We know that these showers are linked to the jets because they're found in filaments and tendrils that wrap around the jets or hug the edges of giant bubbles that the jets have inflated,» said Tremblay, «And they end up making a swirling «puddle» of star - forming gas around the central black hole.»
With these ultrasharp glasses, Ghez and Genzel have tracked the motion of individual stars around the central black hole, called Sagittarius A *, making it possible to compute the black hole's mass and volume.
They find that a lot of gas from the two galaxies — enough to make 3 billion Suns — ends up in the central region of the merged galaxy along with the two black holes.
«The black hole's inactivity [today] suggests that the central few light years doesn't contain enough raw material to make stars.
These «raindrops» eventually cool down enough to transform into star - forming clouds of cold molecular gas that end up making «a swirling «puddle» of star - forming gas around the central black hole.»