Sentences with phrase «from big galaxies»

«This emission could be coming from big galaxies; it could be coming from a class of small galaxies in relatively recent times.»

Not exact matches

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

The big bang theory is part of physics and cosmology, and only explains why the galaxies appear to all be moving away from the same central point.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

And putting together a census of binary supermassive black holes from the early universe, he adds, might help researchers understand what role (if any) these dark duos had in shaping galaxies during the billion or so years following the Big Bang.

The gravity from all that mass redirects any light that tries to sneak past, bending and focusing it, creating bigger and brighter images of galaxies far beyond the cluster.

Over the last few years, Hubble has given us views of infant galaxies as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang, allowing cosmologists to see how quickly the raw materials from the newborn universe coalesced into stars and then galaxies and then clusters of galaxies.

From there they built a convincing case that Sagittarius A * was in fact a black hole — the biggest one in the galaxy, with a mass 4.3 million times that of the sun and a diameter of about 25 million kilometers.

From exoplanet atmospheres to the dynamics of galaxies to the stretch marks left by the big bang, the three finalists in a $ 250 million astrophysics mission competition would tackle questions spanning all of space and time.

Although we've known for about a century that galaxies are receding from ours, scientists long speculated that matter's gravitational heft would eventually slow cosmic expansion — maybe even reverse it, culminating in what's called a Big Crunch.

Minchin views this dark galaxy not as an anomaly but as perhaps a crucially important piece of evidence confirming current theories about how orderly structures — including bright galaxies like our own — emerged from the formlessness of the Big Bang.

Along with the familiar cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the big bang — the distant universe is suffused with an infrared background, thought to come from galaxies and stars too faint and far away to see.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

How could — due to a breaking of symmetry — matter, and thus stars and galaxies, be created from an originally symmetrical universe in which the same conditions prevailed everywhere shortly after the Big Bang?

When the cobe satellite in 1992 mapped the faint microwave glow left over from the Big Bang, it couldn't make out structures as small as individual galaxies, or even clusters of galaxies.

Unfortunately, that energy density is much bigger than the value for dark energy we measure using observations of galaxies moving away from each other.

Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.

Everything we know in the universe — planets, people, stars, galaxies, gravity, matter and antimatter, energy and dark energy — all date from the cataclysmic Big Bang.

Einstein wasn't happy with the idea of a big bang — until astronomer Edwin Hubble showed that galaxies are speeding away from each other

The oldest galaxies seen directly with telescopes sent their starlight from significantly later: several hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, which occurred about 13.8 billion years ago.

«If [dark energy] had been any bigger, there would have been enough repulsion from it to overwhelm the gravity that drew the galaxies together, drew the stars together, and drew Earth together,» Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind says.

About 12 million light - years distant in galaxy M82, middleweight M82 X-1 is bigger than the black holes left over from stars» deaths, but it's not big enough to be supermassive.

It could be the elusive theory of everything, a set of universal laws governing everything from the smallest quark within the atom to the largest cluster of galaxies, from the Big Bang to this moment.

«Faintest galaxy from the early universe, 400 million years after the big bang.»

For years he had been studying the origin of the universe, working backward in time from the current arrangement of galaxies to infer conditions in the era immediately after the Big Bang.

In 2007, researchers with the Pierre Auger Observatory, an even bigger array in Argentina, reported that ultra — high - energy cosmic rays appeared to spring from the fiery hearts of certain galaxies — only to see that correlation weaken with more data.

Previously, the oldest light gathered by telescopes emanated from galaxies formed a few billion years after the Big Bang.

Lee thinks the galaxy probably formed not from the cataclysmic collapse of one big gas cloud but from the mergers of many smaller ones.

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy dating from just 780 million years after the big bang, making it the oldest object ever seen.

In fact, production rates have steadily declined from a maximally productive period between 3 and 6 billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies formed about 10 times as many stars (going by the total mass of the stars created) each year than today.

These clusters are so massive they warp the surrounding space, forming gigantic «gravitational lenses» that amplify the faint light from galaxies even farther away, ones born less than a billion years after the big bang.

This 13 - billion - year - old galaxy (circled in this image from Hubble) formed 700 million years after the Big Bang, but its light is just now reaching us.

Observational evidence for the Big Bang includes the analysis of the spectrum of light from galaxies, which reveal a shift towards longer wavelengths proportional to each galaxy's distance in a relationship described by Hubble's law.

That conclusion got a big boost from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, an Australian - British project that uses the Anglo - Australian Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, to gague the motions of hundreds of galaxies per hour.

Tacchella and colleagues observed a total of 22 galaxies, spanning a range of masses, from an era about three billion years after the Big Bang.

Initially some researchers proposed that this light came from the very first galaxies to form and ignite stars after the Big Bang.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

Data gathered from the previous galaxy clusters were studied by teams all over the world, enabling them to make important discoveries, among them galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the Big Bang heic1523 and the first predicted appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova heic1525.

The object, dubbed SDSS1133, lies about 2600 light - years from the center of a dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 177 (both of which lie within the bowl of the Big Dipper, a familiar star pattern in the constellation Ursa Major).

The going theory is that the biggest galaxies didn't make most of these stars themselves; rather, they swept them up from smaller star clusters over time.

Many researchers argue that ever more evidence from clusters of galaxies, the largest scale structure of the universe, and the afterglow of the big bang points to the existence of dark matter.

▪ The detection of stars extending from the Andromeda galaxy's main disk indicates that the galaxy is 220,000 light - years across, three times bigger than previously thought.

Scientists suspect some sources: the Big Bang itself, shock waves from supernovas collapsing into black holes, and matter accelerated as it is sucked into massive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

Among the most used by amateur astronomers are The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy's Big Questions, Comets: Visitors from Deep Space, The Universe from Your Backyard, Deep - Sky Observing with Small Telescopes, and Stars and Galaxies.

Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map out the location of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects in the universe.

Edwin Hubble and others show far - off galaxies are moving away from us — the first hint of an expanding «big bang» universe.

Astronomers have spotted seven galaxies from a period between 380 million and 600 million years after the big bang.

More remarkable is the fact that the researchers, led by astrophysicist Richard Ellis of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, have imaged not one but seven galaxies from that early cosmic period, dating between 380 million and 600 million years after the big bang.

One cool detail: Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and our sister galaxy, Andromeda, move at 1.4 million miles per hour relative to the ubiquitous background energy left over from the Big Bang, a standard frame of reference for astronomers.