Sentences with phrase «from giant black holes»

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

Not exact matches

Considering we are seeing this giant black hole's activity from a time when the universe was only a tenth of its present age, astronomers are puzzled about how it could've grown so big so fast.

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.

This only ended when ultraviolet light from the first stars and giant black holes had once again ionised the fog of neutral atoms filling the universe.

About 12 billion years ago, the gas warmed from 8000 to 15,000 kelvin, probably due to heating from quasars, objects powered by giant black holes, the team will report in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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

However, two theoretical physicists from the University of Barcelona (Spain) have demonstrated that what occurs on the space - time boundary of the two merging objects can be explained using simple equations, at least when a giant black hole collides with a tiny black hole.

Swift also may see faint bursts from the first stars in the universe: giant objects that probably created large black holes more than 13 billion years ago, Grindlay predicts.

That leaves just one plausible explanation — that the source is a black hole siphoning matter from a companion star such as a red giant, Maccarone says.

a) A tangled ball of cosmic string b) A being that appears to be made out of pure energy, captain c) A bubble of space that inflated out of sync with the rest of the universe d) A giant black hole whose gravity red - shifts light from that direction

In addition to clarifying what proportion of black holes are born without fanfare, the survey may also detect rare, giant outbursts from massive stars that are close to going supernova.

A giant x-ray flare from the heart of our galaxy is helping researchers test ideas about a black hole they believe lurks there

But we saw these giant filaments of cold gas that extend 20,000 light years from the central black hole, beyond the central galaxy itself.

Now an international team of researchers from eight different countries has made ultra-high angular resolution images of the black hole jet at the centre of the giant galaxy NGC 1275, also known as radio source Perseus A or 3C 84.

The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near - infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

From supermassive black holes at galactic centers to giant bursts of star formation to titanic collisions between galaxies, these discoveries allow astronomers to probe the current properties of galaxies as well as examine how they formed and developed.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)