Sentences with phrase «devoured by a black hole»
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Quasars are considered «active» galaxies because the bright objects are powered by supermassive black holes that are devouring their surroundings.
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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.
This rapidly spinning inner ring is clumpy and has streamers of matter jutting out of it toward the black hole, as if it is being devoured strand by strand.
The more of them we find, the less likely it is that they all grew the way most modern black holes do, by devouring dust and gas.
If these giants did grow by devouring their more diminutive counterparts, then the universe should also be riddled with middleweight black holes, tens of times the size of the sun.
The supermassive black hole in the AGN devours surrounding materials by its strong gravity and generates a disk around the black hole.
By detecting gamma - and X-rays, astronomers can observe the most powerful phenomena in the Universe, such as black holes devouring matter and supernova explosions.
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.