Sentences with phrase «earliest known galaxies»

The earliest known galaxies in the universe.

Observations by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe.

It is thought to be the first look at a previously unseen period of the universe — between the release of the microwave background and the formation of the earliest known galaxies, about a billion years later.

Not exact matches

Early in Einstein's career, astronomers didn't know about other galaxies.

Computational analysis of Sloan's prodigious data set has uncovered evidence of some of the earliest known astronomical objects, determined that most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes, and even mapped out the three - dimensional structure of the local universe.

Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.

In the early 2000s, when looking for other objects in a nearby galaxy, he and his colleagues captured an image filled with the echoing light of three known supernovas.

In the early universe, galaxies collided relatively often and their black holes sometimes merged, growing more massive in the process and sometimes birthing hugely energetic objects known as quasars.

No one knows why, but the result suggests that galaxies in the early universe created stars differently than they do today.

The early universe was a featureless soup of hot plasma that somehow grew into the dense galaxy clusters and cosmic voids we know today.

«Knowing more about the black holes powering quasars will allow us to know more about how galaxies develop,» said Marta Volonteri, the research director at the Observatory of Paris and the principal investigator of the BLACK project, which investigates how supermassive black holes influenced their host galaxies, especially as quasars, in the early universe.

Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.

«We now know that at least some very early galaxies have halos that are much more extended that previously considered, which may represent the future material for galaxy growth.»

We now know that galaxies began dying fairly early in the history of the universe, and that central supermassive black holes and galactic collisions play key roles in galactic evolution.

Hydrogen emission from EGSY8p7 may indicate it is the first known example of an early generation of young galaxies emitting unusually strong radiation.

This made possible a result that was not before known about the spin of early primitive galaxies.

Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe's earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes - known as filaments - that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.

Known as a quasar, this type of galaxy lit up the early universe, and their extreme activity was driven by the black hole dynamos in their cores.

Also the early MMOs were very much niche and not that well known, hell even Star Wars Galaxies wasn't that popular or heavily talked about in gaming news past its initial stuff.

While earlier Mass Effect games focused on the defense of the Milky Way galaxy, with humans pitted against a race of ruthless mechanical invaders known as the Reapers, the new story will take the game in a dramatic new direction and is set in a new region of space, with a new and deadly enemy.

Details are fairly scarce surrounding the eagerly awaited new entry in the Mass Effect series but we do know that it is set well after the earlier trilogy, in the titular galaxy, and will use the Frostbite 3 engine to power «exciting new worlds, great characters, and intense action,» according to EA.