Sentences with phrase «giant black hole»

I have had quite a few questions about how I covered up that giant black hole above the fireplace known to builders as the place to put a TV.

The space experiment will be looking for waves with around a ten - thousandth of that frequency, which are believed to be characteristic of events such as stars falling into giant black holes at the centres of galaxies.

Rees has made major contributions to modern astrophysics and cosmology, showing, for instance, how accretion discs around giant black holes in the centres of galaxies could power quasars.

Quasars are very distant and ancient galaxies of extreme brilliance, thought to be powered by material falling into giant black holes at their centres.

X-rays from distant galaxies may reveal the appetites of giant black holes that lurk there.

He is a specialist on active galactic nuclei, superbright galactic cores thought to be caused by giant black holes sucking in and heating up quantities of gas and dust.

It may be because most of them harbor giant black holes at their centers.

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.

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.

Tom Theuns and Liang Gao, astronomers at Durham University in England, used a computer model last year to study how two types of dark matter, known as warm and cold, may have influenced the formation of the very first stars in the universe — and the first giant black holes.

A jet (inset) at the core of the merging galaxy system NGC 326 may have flipped direction when two giant black holes combined.

Such «dark matter stars» could have been huge and, when their power source was exhausted, might have collapsed to form giant black holes.

One possible solution, according to McCarthy, is that giant black holes played a more crucial role in «seeding» the formation of massive galaxies.

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 any casea giant black hole would be born spinning, and as more clouds ofstar - stuff spiraled into it, adding their angular momentum to its own, it would speed up.

This newfound giant black hole, which formed just 690 million years after the Big Bang, could one day help shed light on a number of cosmic mysteries, such as how black holes could have reached gargantuan sizes quickly after the Big Bang and how the universe got cleared of the murky fog that once filled the entire cosmos, the researchers said in the new study.

Researchers report that this is the most distant giant black hole ever detected, and at this distance, our Universe was only about 5 % of its current age, or about 690 million years after the Big Bang.

Something has to slow the two giant black holes down, or they will just keep distantly orbiting the centre of the galaxy.

Thorne and Cornell astrophysicist Robert Owen put the lines to work in a simulation of two black holes colliding, revealing for the first time how gravitational effects can combine to catapult the resultant giant black hole away from the site of the collision — a phenomenon that has puzzled astrophysicists for years.

«NASA's Chandra Observatory catches giant black hole rejecting material.»

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.

Other astronomers have theorized that giant black holes in the heart of the galaxies blew strong winds that expelled the gas.

I hate asking for money, but I've learned the hard way that events that don't pay me for my work tend to turn into giant black holes that suck my time and energy away.

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.

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.

Today, astronomers know that virtually every galaxy harbors a giant black hole at its center, shaping the formation of millions of stars and even neighboring galaxies with its immense gravitational influence.

Strong evidence for the existence of a giant black hole in the core of a galaxy has come from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — The giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way has attracted a throng of dark companions.

There, young stars, born during the merger, will explode as supernovas, and a quasar — a giant black hole ignited by the galactic collision — might spew energetic radiation.

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.

In any case, a giant black hole would be born spinning, and as more clouds of star stuff spiraled into it, adding their angular momentum to its own, it would speed up.

Ray Tracing: Energetic cosmic rays linked to giant black holes.

It represents a giant black hole spinning at nearly the speed of light, the space - time around it twisted like a whirlpool, and the fluorescent iron atoms that trace that fantastic motion cast like leaves on swirling water.

A giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led by the University of New Hampshire.

The three linked stars were strolling through the Milky Way but got too close to the giant black hole at the center.

Most curiously, each giant black hole appears to contain exactly 0.2 % of the mass of its galaxy's bulge of stars.

A team of researchers led by Eric Schlegel, Vaughn Family Endowed Professor in Physics at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has discovered a powerful galactic blast produced by a giant black hole about 26 million light years from Earth.

No Middle Ground Astronomers know of the giant black holes at galactic cores and the comparatively lightweight versions that form when stars collapse.

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

She says it would not surprise her if the earliest of these giant black holes appeared as little as 500 million years after the birth of the universe.

Still, many people were shocked in 2003 when a detailed sky survey found that giant black holes were already common nearly 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than a billion years old.

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.

The source of all that commotion is thought to be a giant black hole, billions of times more massive than our sun.

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.

Hubble's infrared camera enabled Freudling, an astronomer with the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, to analyze the elements in three quasars — clouds of hot gas swirling into giant black holes — that were up to 12.8 billion years old.

The giant black hole in the middle of our galaxy stays pretty quiet most of the time, flaring up only occasionally.

A giant black hole in a galaxy a billion light years away has been caught in the act of butchering a star — the first time this has been seen, astronomers announced this week.

Last year, at the center of a galaxy far, far away, astronomers watched a star send out a distress flare when a giant black hole tore it to shreds (artist's conception shown).