Sentences with phrase «fueled by black holes»

Not exact matches

«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.

Quasars are incredibly bright powerhouses of radiation that are believed to be fueled by gas falling into a massive black hole at the core of a galaxy.

So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a type of extremely bright galaxy core seemingly fueled by powerful black holes actively gobbling large amounts of material.

Quasars are extremely bright, distant objects that are fueled by otherwise undetectable black holes.

These distant quasars are thought to «turn on» when the host galaxy's central black hole is «fueled» by material drawn in during an early stage of the galaxy's development, before the galaxy «settles down» to a more sedate life.

These are black holes that are a few to a few dozen times the mass of our sun that were likely formed by the death of very massive stars after they'd run out of fuel and exploded as supernovas billions of years ago.