Sentences with phrase «galaxies contain»

Two galaxies contain them; three in Space Junk Galaxy and two in Ghostly Galaxy.

He was well known for his idea that galaxies contain super-massive black holes at their cores, which provide the principal source of energy to power a quasar.

The luminous cores of most if not all galaxies contain a supermassive black hole, which is millions or even billions of times more massive than the sun.

In other instances, dead galaxies contain plenty of gas, but some factor prevents them from forming stellar nurseries.

Also, some massive black holes (MBHs) orbit each other inside a single galaxy, and four galaxies contain triple MBHs.38 Astronomers believe galaxy mergings produced these systems, but as already stated, galaxies rarely merge today, because they are so far apart.

Furthermore, stars in the most distant galaxies contain heavy chemical elements.53 Therefore, according to the big bang theory, several generations of stars must have preceded those stars.

Unfortunately, elliptical galaxies have no Cepheids because Cepheids are young and elliptical galaxies contain only old stars.

Large galaxies contain a trillion or more stars.

1990: Supermassive Black Holes Hubble images revealed that most galaxies contain supermassive black holes millions of times heavier than the sun.

But if spiral galaxies contain a modest amount of conventional dark matter, says Bertolami, there is no need to invoke any form of exotic dark matter.

Both are thought to be important for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies, and thus to some degree important for the formation and evolution of everything galaxies contain — including stars, planets and people.

Because dwarf galaxies contain so few stars, this suggests that whatever is responsible for FRB 121102 has a better chance of forming in tiny galaxies than large, spiral ones.

For example, astronomers have been trying to explain why some recently discovered distant, but young, galaxies contain massive amounts of dust.

The centers of galaxies contain many stars, and even monstrous black holes are quite small — comparable to the size of our solar system.

And then, having created this universe of over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars he decides to focus his attention on one planet where he creates life «in his image» as if such a being would even have an image.

You'll almost certainly dodge that question by claiming he has always existed, so if that's the case, what suddenly prompted God to create a universe filled with over 100 billion galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars after spending an eternity extending into the past existing alone in an absolute void of nothingness?

Yet, given what we know about the formation of solar systems and the biology of life, combined with the fact that there are billions of galaxies each containing billions of stars, I find it perfectly plausible that alien life could exist.

The galaxy contains billions of potentially habitable Earth - sized planets, according to even the most conservative estimate drawing on data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.

Discovery of Late - Type Companions to Two Exoplanet Host Stars] Our galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, and astronomers suspect planets accompany almost all of them.

Kepler's statistics indicate that our galaxy contains up to 300 billion planets.

As the solar system orbits the centre of our galaxy, it bobs up and down on a regular cycle, so if the galaxy contains a dark matter disc, we would pass through it every 35 million years.

Images of M32, a dwarf elliptical galaxy near to our own, show that stars become clustered much more closely together near its centre, which is what should happen if the galaxy contains a black hole.

«Almost every massive galaxy contains a supermassive black hole,» Pasham says.

The team looked for galaxies containing both Cepheid stars and Type Ia supernovae.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

Based on Kepler's growing planetary candidate list, it is clear that our galaxy contains at least 150 billion planets, and that at least half of its stars have planets.

Dwarf galaxies can be found with fewer than 1,000 stars, in contrast to the Milky Way, an average - size galaxy containing billions of stars.

This should allow users to calculate distances to some of the Universe's most remote objects, such as quasars, the luminous cores of distant galaxies containing giant black holes.

Some astronomers believed that those cosmic fuzzballs resided within the Milky Way, the galaxy containing the sun and billions of other stars.

Astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an international team used the Hubble Space Telescope to chart the orbital motions of stars within galaxies containing giant black holes, including eight newly identified ones.

This implies that different planetary systems in our galaxy contain minor planets like our own.

Three years ago, a University of Utah - led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole.

Simply put, the velocity at which clusters orbit a galaxy is related to the amount of matter — normal or dark — that a galaxy contains.

They were surprised to find that this youthful galaxy contained an abundance of interstellar dust — dust formed by the deaths of an earlier generation of stars.

They selected about 100 galaxies containing active supermassive black holes.

The combined amount of light detected by Hubble and Spitzer reveals that the galaxy contains less than 500 million times the mass of our sun, making it at most 1 / 200th as large as the Milky Way.

Like a child leaving a trail of crumbs when emptying a cookie jar, the Andromeda galaxy contains a stream of stars that suggests it is eating its smaller companion galaxies.

At its core, the galaxy contains a black hole as massive as 55 million suns.

The Andromeda galaxy contains ten times as many globular star clusters as the Milky Way, according to an international team of astronomers.

This will provide the first opportunity to measure how much dark matter the primordial galaxy contains.

Astronomers have known for some 10 years that nearly every large galaxy contains at its core an immense black hole — an object having such intense gravity that even light can not escape.

The most intense bursts of starbirth are thought to have taken place in the early Universe in massive, bright galaxies containing lots of cosmic dust.

The Milky Way galaxy contains our solar system.

«Clusters of galaxies are rare regions of the Universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious dark matter,» said the lead author, Tracy Webb of McGill University, Canada.

Clusters are rare regions of the Universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious Dark Matter.

Surrounding each galactic bulge was a stretched galaxy containing typically billions of widely spaced stars.

The resulting explosions are the brightest events in the universe and vastly outshine entire galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars.

«However, as we penetrate deeper into the Universe, and hence back to earlier times, the space between galaxies contains an increasing number of dark clouds of hydrogen which absorb this signal.»

Our Milky Way galaxy contains billions of stars that congregate in spiral arms and a dense, turbulent core surrounding a supermassive black hole.

Investigations of these results have revealed that this galaxy contains a massive central object of about 2 billion solar masses.