Sentences with phrase «from galaxy center»

The elliptical galaxy's mass = k × (velocity dispersion) 2 × (the distance the stars are from the galaxy center) / G, where k is a factor that depends on the shape of the galaxy and the angle the galaxy is from Earth.

The linear distance from the galaxy center = -LSB-(2p × (distance to the galaxy) × (angular distance in degrees)-RSB- / 360 °.

The light from most of the region's stars suggested they are moving quickly away from the galaxy center, which would make sense for items captured in a jet of fast - moving material.

Not exact matches

The Milky Way, the beautiful spiral galaxy that we call home, contains billions of stars including our own star, the sun, about 26,000 light years from its center.

If we were slightly closer to the sun, if our solar system was slightly closer to (or further away from) the center of the galaxy, life could not exist on earth.

It is great interest that our solar system (and earth) is located between spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy, some 28,000 light years from the center of the galaxy.

To calculate the local gravitational constant according to Whitehead's theory, Will assumes that all the mass of our galaxy (1011 solar masses) is concentrated at a point 20,000 light - years from the earth — the distance of the earth from the center of the galaxy.

These observations help clarify the origin of the powerful jet of gas streaming from the galaxy's center at a high fraction of the speed of light: it is likely driven by the swirling matter near the black hole's boundary.»

Typo linchbreaker, Make «note» Lunchbreaker that «Mathew Francis» wrote the above quote declaring that said «jet of gas» was streaming from said galaxy's center and not from your position of the accretion disk.

[Sukanya Chakrabarti et al, Clustered Cepheid Variables 90 kiloparsec from the Galactic Center] Dwarf galaxies like this one are thought to contain more dark matter than regular matter.

MAGNIFYING THE COSMOS The light from a distant galaxy (lower right) is warped by the gravity of a closer, massive galaxy (bright blur in center).

Using 12 years of archival data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, a team led by Columbia University astrophysicist Chuck Hailey has found a dozen potential black holes within a few light - years of the Milky Way's center, well within the gravitational reach of our galaxy's supermassive black hole.

The spiral galaxy M101 takes center stage in this photo from the Dragonfly telescope, but astronomers are also interested in the fainter galaxies lurking in the background.

Powerful radiation from supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies creates winds that can blow gas out of the galaxies, halting star formation.

Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.

At a certain distance from the galactic center, the rotation curves for stars in most every spiral galaxy simply do not fall; instead, at some point they flatten.

In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is «choking» on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

Repeating this process for a sequence of positions from the center of the galaxy out to its visible edge allowed astronomers to determine rotation speeds at various distances.

«With three lensed quasars — cosmic beacons emanating from massive black holes in the centers of galaxies — collaborators and I measured the expansion rate to 3.8 percent precision.

Radio telescopes have picked up intense bursts of low - frequency static from a mysterious source that may lie hidden near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Last December 2 a strange signal reached Earth from a source thousands of light - years away in the center of our galaxy.

The satellite galaxy Andromeda II is located in a distant orbit approximately 600,000 light years from the center of the great Andromeda Galaxy.

We know the Milky Way is a star - filled spiral galaxy in excess of 100,000 light - years wide, and we know our solar system drifts between two spiral arms at its outskirts, some 27,000 light - years from its center.

According to astrophysicist Alexander Kashlinsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, something from way beyond the edge seems to be pulling powerfully on galaxies in our universe, yanking them along in a motion he calls «dark flow.»

The reason we think it exists is because if you take what we know about gravitation and then look at the velocity of stars traveling around the center of disk galaxies, they are not traveling at the speeds we expect from visible matter.

Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giants with one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center of mass.

Normally, he says, «you expect objects near the center of a galaxy to rotate faster and objects farther from the center to go slower and slower, but this wasn't observed.»

An international team analyzed about 12 years of data to show that particles with energies above 8 billion billion electron volts generally come from a particular direction in the sky, and it's not the galaxy's center.

This animation outlines the rays» journey to Earth from one possible starting point: being launched from a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.

Red indicates 10 million Kelvin gas at the centers of massive galaxy clusters, while bright structures show diffuse gas from the intergalactic medium shock heating at the boundary between cosmic voids and filaments.

A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a band of bright stars emerging from the center and running across the middle of the galaxy.

In countless galaxies observed to date, stars orbit the galactic center so quickly that gravity alone shouldn't be enough to keep galaxies from flying apart.

«We think these arcs represent artifacts from two enormous gusts when the black hole expelled material outward into the galaxy,» said co-author Christine Jones, astrophysicist and lecturer at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Just beyond the outer arc, the researchers detected a slender region of hydrogen gas emission, suggesting that X-ray emitting gas displaced the hydrogen gas from the center of the galaxy.

In the case of our universe, the wormhole might be quite short and still reach from, say, our solar system to the center of our galaxy.

The luminous belt stretches from the southern to northern horizon and appears thickest around the galaxy's center, in western Sagittarius.

Chandra X-ray Observatory Center Background about earlier discovery of x-rays from galaxy's black hole Technical report on previous Chandra observations of Sagittarius A * NASA article on x-ray flare

Brian Schmidt and Robert Kirshner of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ronald Eastman of Lick Observatory in California, and their colleagues obtained a new estimate of the Hubble constant from observations of a supernova in a distant galaxy in the constellation of Cetus.

They collected all the data they could find about stellar speeds in the inner regions of our home galaxy to see how they varied with distance from the center, they report online today in Nature Physics.

This capability helped the team to rule out a theory that posited cold clouds close to the galaxy's center could be pushed out by fast - moving, hot wind from supernovas.

It was discovered in the 1970s when astronomer Vera Rubin showed that stars in the outer regions of spiral galaxies, far from the center, were moving faster than they should be.

But a team of astronomers recently discovered something odd enough to make even their most jaded colleagues take notice: a vast fountain of antimatter that appears to be spewing from our galaxy's center.

The positrons may be jetting from superhot gas falling into a giant black hole believed to inhabit the center of our galaxy.

The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.

Earth faces away from our galaxy's dusty center, allowing an unobstructed view of distant objects.

«Giant galaxies die from the inside out: Star formation shuts down in the centers of elliptical galaxies first.»

As the jets propel gas outward from the center of the galaxy, some of that gas cools and precipitates into cold clumps that fall back toward the galaxy's center like raindrops.»

The contours together with the transition from red to blue indicate a gaseous disc that is rotating about the center of the galaxy.

The bluish circle around the galaxies is the light from a more distant galaxy bending around the cluster's center due to gravity from both stars and dark matter.

Harvard University astrophysicist Charlie Conroy and colleagues studied these two particular clusters because they are far from the galactic centers of the Milky way and Andromeda galaxies; that distance has shielded them from cosmic turbulence and kept them — and any putative dark matter — in a relatively pristine state.