This image shows observations of a newly
discovered galaxy core dubbed GOODS - N - 774, taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Not exact matches
Many
galaxies are shooting material out of their
cores, and in 2010 astronomers were surprised to
discover that our
galaxy was one of them, giving us a front - row seat on the phenomenon.
The most recent addition to the tour,
discovered just last year, involves what appears to be a giant plume of antimatter — a fountain of particles identical to ordinary matter except that they have the opposite electric charge — shooting up from the
core and straight out of the disk of the
galaxy as far as 5,000 light - years, where the antimatter jet meets clouds of ordinary matter, and both are annihilated in a burst of energy.
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have
discovered jets of plasma blasted from the
cores of distant
galaxies at speeds within one - tenth of one percent of the speed of light, placing these plasma jets among the fastest objects yet seen in the Universe.
An international team of astronomers has
discovered a distant massive
galaxy cluster with a
core bursting with new stars.
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes have
discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the
core of a
galaxy 450 million light - years away.
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes have
discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the
core of a
galaxy 450 million light - years away.
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers has
discovered a distant massive
galaxy cluster with a
core bursting with new stars.