Sentences with phrase «galaxy clusters together»

Mass - bearing neutrinos would also account for some of the invisible matter thought to hold galaxies and galaxy clusters together.

Dark energy seems to cause the expansion of the universe to accelerate, while dark matter helps hold galaxies and galaxy clusters together.

Astronomers have long known that galaxies cluster together into enormous systems — the urban centers of the cosmos — and that the largest galaxies tend to «point» towards their neighbors.

Stars clump into galaxies, and galaxies cluster together unevenly across the heavens.

Not exact matches

Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (the universe itself is 14.8 billion years old), that clump together due to gravity, and are found circling cores of galaxies.

Without Nothingness hemming together all of the celestial pageantries» clusters of galaxies in nebulas, ever forming solar systems, Life as we know would never have been able to be and therefore become.

Without Nothingness hemming together all of the celestial pageantries» clusters of galaxies in nebulas forming solar systems, Life as we know would never have been able to be and therefore become.

Dark energy competes with dark matter — an elusive substance that holds together galaxies and their clusters — to erect the scaffolding for the universe, the places where atoms can get together and form stars and planets.

When the cosmos was a few hundred million years old, this gas coalesced into the earliest stars, which formed in clusters that clumped together into galaxies, the oldest of which appears 400 million years after the universe was born.

Sprinkled with matter that clumps together due to the insatiable pull of gravity, the universe is a network of dense galaxy clusters and filaments — the hearty beans and vegetables of the cosmic stew.

In the Phoenix Cluster, Russell and her team found an additional process that ties the galaxy and its black hole together.

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.

Clouds of gas condensed to form stars and galaxies, and galaxies drew together to form clusters.

Gravity prevents our solar system from flying apart and binds together enormous clusters of galaxies.

So what makes up all this dark material holding together clusters of galaxies?

Most likely, dark matter provides the gravitational glue that holds together small groups of galaxies, which merged together to form this cluster.

Star clusters and galaxies both contain stars bound together by gravity, but while the members of a star cluster are thought to form simultaneously from a collapsing ball of gas, galaxies have richer histories.

The potent mutual attraction that holds together huge clusters of galaxies traps hot gas that feverishly emits X-rays.

He found that the individual galaxies were zipping round far too rapidly for their gravity to keep them bound together in a cluster.

It is what holds together giant clusters of galaxies, but it is also what I experience every time I sit down in a chair or take a step.

And since the color and brightness of young clusters gives their ages — and therefore, the time since a collision began — astronomers hope to put together a series of snapshots of the entire collision process by looking at many examples of merging galaxies.

Clustering of galaxies along the vast ripples was predicted more than 30 years ago, so finally seeing the structures is a triumph, says astrophysicist Martin Rees of Cambridge University, U.K. «The concordant picture we have of the universe is hanging together extremely well.»

A fair bit of the cosmos — 22 per cent of it, in fact — seems to be made of invisible dark matter, whose extra gravity helps to bind stars together in galaxies, and galaxies together in clusters.

Galaxies clump together into clusters, which in turn form superclusters.

Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe, containing hundreds to thousands of galaxies, bound together by gravity.

A galaxy cluster is a cosmic behemoth — a conglomeration of hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity.

Back in 1933, Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology had argued that large clusters of galaxies could not be held together by gravity unless most of their mass was in an unknown «dark» form.

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.

Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky deduced its presence more than 70 years ago when he realized that a powerful gravitational pull from some unknown, unseen substance seemed to bind together clusters of galaxies.

NGC 1400 is the second brightest galaxy in the cluster, after NGC 1407, and together these two galaxies supply two - thirds of the cluster's light.

Protoclusters are the precursors to galaxy clusters, which consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity.

Cold Dark Matter Model A leading model of the universe's evolution since the Big Bang, in which slow - moving dark - matter particles clumped together, seeding the formation of galaxies and galactic clusters.

All three, together with colleagues from other countries, are co-authors of the article «The case for electron reacceleration at galaxy cluster shocks», published in January 2017 in the journal Nature.

For starters, it is a form of cosmic glue that binds our galaxy together and provides the necessary gravitational force for galaxies to cluster around one another.

This image shows galaxies clumped together in the Fornax cluster, located 60 million light - years from Earth.

Globular Clusters are a fascinating objects to view and can be easily seen with binoculars, they are groups of ancient stars huddled together and orbiting the central bulge of our galaxy.

«In 1933 the late Fritz Zwicky pointed out that the galaxies of the Coma cluster are moving too fast: there is not enough visible mass in the galaxies to bind the cluster together by gravity.

The galaxies clump together into clusters and the galaxy clusters gather together into huge string - like superclusters with big gaps (voids) in between.

«In a fraction of cases, they may be born from stars in very different parts of a galaxy or star cluster then come together later in life.»

Dubbed «CL J1001 +0220,» or «CL J1001» in short, the galaxy cluster is located about 11.1 billion light - years from Earth, pushing back the formation time of galaxy clusters — which consist of thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity — by about 700 million light - years, NASA said.

If the dark matter is strongly interacting, when those massive clusters come together, the galaxies will keep flying right on through, but the dark matter, because it's strongly interacting with itself, will sort of bunch up in the middle.

Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters.

Hundreds of rapidly moving galaxies often cluster tightly together.

Their relative velocities, as inferred by the redshifts of their light, are so high that these clusters should be flying apart, because each cluster's visible mass is much too small to hold its galaxies together gravitationally.a Because galaxies within clusters are so close together, they have not been flying apart for very long.

The galaxies in these clusters are bound together gravitationally and influence one another.

Many galaxies are gravitationally bound together to form clusters, which themselves are loosely bound into superclusters, which in turn are sometimes seen to align over even larger scale structures.

A few intrepid stargazers turned their attention to galactic clusters — knots of galaxies (as few as 50 and as many as thousands) bound together by gravity — hoping to find pools of hot gas that had previously gone undetected and that might account for the mass being attributed to dark matter.

Individually, both supermassive black holes and colliding galaxy clusters are among the most powerful phenomena in the universe, but they had never been observed clearly linked together.