Sentences with phrase «during galaxy collisions»

Future high - resolution infrared observations from the James Webb Space Telescope will complement these discoveries by providing greater detail of the dynamics of cool stars, gas and dust during galaxy collisions.

The likeliest mechanism is the arrival of a second massive black hole during a galaxy collision, say Merritt and his colleague, radio astronomer Ron Ekers of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney.

Not exact matches

Yet the collisions or near misses dictated by these theories are inherently very improbable, perhaps only ten for the entire life of our galaxy during the past five billion years.32 With so few planets in existence, we could hardly assume that there would be much life elsewhere, at least not in our galaxy.

These billion - solar - mass monsters, residing in the centers of large galaxies, can glom together during galactic collisions after a spiraling dance, as shown here.

The Musket Ball Cluster's dark matter, the hot gas, and the individual galaxies are strongly separated from each other because they behave differently during a cluster collision.

This spot is believed to be the nucleus of the former spiral galaxy, which was ejected from the system during the collision and is now being shredded by tidal forces to produce the visible stellar stream.

Those other processes include collisions of giant gas clouds within galaxies, internal instabilities, tidal interactions during flybys of smaller galaxies, and minor mergers that don't produce conspicuous distortions.

An unusual object about 90 million light - years from Earth might be a supermassive black hole kicked out of its home galaxy during a collision with another galaxy, a new study suggests.

Material stripped from the galaxy during its collision with a smaller galaxy (seen in the upper left corner of the larger interaction partner) forms a long tidal tail.

The most accredited hypothesis to explain these abnormal cases invokes collision and merging between two galaxies: these outliers would therefore be nothing but galaxies captured during their collision, a phenomenon that would lead to a sudden, though transient, increase in their star formation rate.

An unexpected attribute of these shells is the abundance of gas, which can become separated from smaller galaxies during a collision.