Sentences with phrase «giant black hole at the center of our galaxy»
Galactic magnetic fields, they suggest, are produced by a ring of electrically charged gas rotating around a giant black hole at the center of a galaxy.
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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.
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.
Researchers will use it to study the flashes of light given out when black holes, including the giant ones at the centers of galaxies, consume stars and other material.
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).
In their model, a doughnut - shaped cloud of electrically charged gas surrounds a giant black hole at a galaxy's center.
A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100 - million - solar - mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, one of the few galaxies outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the Local Group.
AO has measured the mass of the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, imaged the four massive planets orbiting the star HR8799, discovered new supernovae in distant galaxies, and identified the specific stars that were their progenitors.
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.