Sentences with phrase «for supermassive»

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Hubble's fine resolution — the ability to see tiny details — helped propel the case for supermassive black holes even further in 1994, when astronomers took spectra of the gas in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87.

Such direct - collapse black holes, weighing 100,000 to 1 million suns, could then act as «seeds» for supermassive black holes weighing 1 million to 1 billion suns.

Given the 13.8 billion years that have passed since the Big Bang, it may be enough time for supermassive black holes to grow to their gigantic sizes, but how then do we explain that some of them formed less than 800 million years after the universe came into existence?

Our current understanding tells us that for a supermassive black hole to turn into a massive quasar, it would need to accrete matter for at least 100 million years.

The fact that globular clusters have these small black holes implies that they are excellent candidates to act as the seeds for the supermassive black holes that lurk in the centers of nearly all galaxies.

Ultimately, debris from the ill - fated spiral galaxy should provide fuel for the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of Centaurus A.

By measuring the rapid orbits of the stars near the center of our galaxy, Dr. Ghez and her colleagues have moved the case for a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way from a possibility to a certainty.

Evidence for supermassive black holes — weighing millions or billions of suns — has been found in the early universe, but no one knows how they grew so big so fast.

It may have even provided the seeds for the supermassive black holes that seem to anchor all of the big galaxies.

One explanation for the supermassive black hole inside the ultra-compact dwarf galaxies is that the galaxies were once made up of billions of stars.

The only way to make the quasars so bright, astronomers believe, is for supermassive black holes to devour gas at the hearts of large galaxies.

This suggests there is something about jellyfish galaxies that makes them the ideal feeding ground for supermassive black holes, she says.

«Something about jellyfish galaxies makes them the ideal feeding ground for supermassive black holes»

«For supermassive black holes steadily accreting, you wouldn't expect this choking to happen,» Pasham says.

Not exact matches

HIT THE GAS Jets from supermassive black holes, like the one shown in this artist's illustration, could be ultimately responsible for three different types of enigmatic high - energy particles.

When the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first detection of gravitational waves in 2015, for instance, scientists were able to trace them back to two colliding black holes weighing 36 and 29 solar masses, the lightweight cousins of the supermassive black holes that power quasars.

And starting with seeds in this range alleviates the timing problem for the production of the supermassive black holes that power the brightest, most distant quasars.

Very large animals have more «fast twitch» muscle fibers needed during a sprint and can in theory accelerate for longer periods, but those tissues soon run out of oxygen and thus reach max performance long before supermassive creatures ever reach their theoretical maximum speed.

The discovery follows decades of astronomers searching for small black holes in the galactic center, where a supermassive black hole lives (SN: 3/4/17, p. 8).

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

He notes that the model was originally developed for active galactic nuclei — outbursts powered by supermassive black holes — so there is no reason to think it must also apply to gamma - ray bursts.

We have for the first time imaged one of the doughnuts of dust long thought to encircle some supermassive black holes.

Such a system might demonstrate that supermassive black holes merge, a phenomenon for which we only have circumstantial evidence.

As each of these theories predicts different initial masses for the seeds of supermassive black hole seeds, the collisions would produce different gravitational wave signals.

«The gravitational waves from these supermassive black hole binary mergers are the most powerful in the universe,» says study lead author Chiara Mingarelli, a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.

The successful technology demonstration paves the way for detecting mergers of supermassive black holes with future space - based observatories

For many aspects of the simulation, researchers can start their calculations at a fundamental, or ab initio, level with no need for preconceived input data, but processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes — need to be informed by observation and by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculatioFor many aspects of the simulation, researchers can start their calculations at a fundamental, or ab initio, level with no need for preconceived input data, but processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes — need to be informed by observation and by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculatiofor preconceived input data, but processes that are less understood — such as star formation and the growth of supermassive black holes — need to be informed by observation and by making assumptions that can simplify the deluge of calculations.

And a spacecraft called Lisa Pathfinder launched last December to test technology for a proposed space - based observatory that will be sensitive to longer - wavelength gravitational waves from supermassive black hole collisions.

If the technique proves accurate, scientists may have a fast method for weighing supermassive black holes in the cores of distant galaxies.

At the site of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trace.

«There are aggressive campaigns to search for the first supermassive black holes,» Li says.

It's back to the drawing board for astronomers and astrophysicists trying to explain why the supermassive black holes at the hearts of some galaxies pump out huge amounts of radiation.

Astronomers can't wait for the gas cloud known as G2 to reach our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, as shown in this simulation.

A century later, that insight underpins cutting - edge physics: searching for gravitational waves, probing the extreme gravity near the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, tracing the origin of the universe.

«It is the first time that we have seen outflowing cold gas moving at these large speeds at such large distances from the supermassive black hole,» said Claudia Cicone, a PhD student at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, and lead author on the first of the two papers.

For the first time, astronomers have observed titanic tornadoes emerging from a supermassive black hole.

It is expected to operate for 10 years, observing high - energy gamma - ray photons from violent supermassive black holes and mysterious cosmic explosions called gamma - ray bursts.

In October 2015, astronomers watched as a supermassive black hole in the galaxy PGC 043234 — 290 million light - years away — shredded a star, scooped it into the accretion disk and then ate it for space lunch.

Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth, explains Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the international team of scientists.

But a supermassive black hole in a galaxy about 1.8 billion light - years away has been gorging on a single star for more than 10 years — longer than any other observed supermassive black hole meal.

The team figured out what a telescope would see when a star hit the hard surface of a supermassive object at the center of a nearby galaxy: The star's gas would envelope the object, shining for months, perhaps even years.

The team used two Magellan telescope instruments to observe the supermassive black hole: FIRE, which made the discovery, and Fourstar, which was used for additional images.

«But in these previous models, there was simply not enough time for any black hole to reach a supermassive scale so soon after the birth of the universe,» says Christian Reisswig, NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics at Caltech and the lead author of the study.

Bañados was looking in particular for quasars — some of the brightest objects in the universe, that consist of a supermassive black hole surrounded by swirling, accreting disks of matter.

Beginning in 1998, their groups have independently produced compelling evidence for the once controversial notion that our galaxy has at its center a supermassive black hole which is about 4 million times as massive as the sun.

Physicist Chiara Mazzucchelli of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and colleagues reported 11 fussy supermassive black holes that existed when the universe was less than 800 million years old, in the Astrophysical Journal last November.

Astronomers have measured Eddington ratios for only about 20 supermassive black holes in the early universe.