Sentences with phrase «distant giant black hole»

Researchers report that this is the most distant giant black hole ever detected, and at this distance, our Universe was only about 5 % of its current age, or about 690 million years after the Big Bang.

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This should allow users to calculate distances to some of the Universe's most remote objects, such as quasars, the luminous cores of distant galaxies containing giant black holes.

Stellar motions in the core of the giant galaxy do indeed suggest that it may have experienced a black hole merger in the not - too - distant past, says Gebhardt.

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.