Sentences with phrase «dense galaxy core»
Artist's view of the formation of a dense galaxy core.
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Supermassive black holes lurk in the cores of most galaxies, and when they gobble up matter they also heat the surrounding gas and expel it from the host galaxy in powerful, dense winds [2].
Such clusters have very dense cores, each containing a massive galaxy called the «brightest cluster galaxy» (BCG).
They look like a galaxy stripped bare: as if a normal elliptical galaxy — the sort that is a featureless mass of stars without a spiral structure — has had all its outer stars removed, leaving just the dense core of stars at its center.
In addition, NGC 4571 is losing some of its gas, which suggests that the galaxy is being stripped of material because of its proximity to the cluster's dense core.
Supported by the National Science Foundation, IceCube is capable of capturing the fleeting signatures of high - energy neutrinos — nearly massless particles generated, presumably, by dense, violent objects such as supermassive black holes, galaxy clusters, and the energetic cores of star - forming galaxies.
Our Milky Way galaxy contains billions of stars that congregate in spiral arms and a dense, turbulent core surrounding a supermassive black hole.