Sentences with phrase «giant elliptical»

Some of the dust inside Centaurus A maps out what appears to be a barred spiral galaxy, which has recently merged with its giant elliptical host and is feeding gas into the host's central hole to produce bi-polar jets that are bright in radio wavelengths (more from APOD and ESA).

Its exact type is uncertain, but it is usually classified either as a giant elliptical or... [Read more...]

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light - year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus of the giant elliptical galaxy M87.

Astronomers (who uncovered the infrared image of the embedded spiral using the ISO satellite) believe that the giant elliptical's gravity has helped the consumed, barred spiral galaxy to maintain its shape thus far.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Detection of the spiral's dust in a bi-symmetric structure provides strong evidence of its position deep inside the giant elliptical host while the vast amounts of radio, visual, and x-ray emissions are a result of the energy released by this continuing galactic merger (or «consumption» of a satellite galaxy).

Another target is the supermassive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy in M87.

The research team led by Satoru Iguchi, Associate Professor of NAOJ, succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole in the center of 3C66B (a giant elliptical galaxy within the cluster A347) just before its black hole merger.

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316.

The quasar's element ratios are consistent with chemical evolution models suggesting the fast formation of high - mass stars within around half a billion years previously, similar to the nitrogen - rich environment of today's «Giant Elliptical» galaxies (Pentericci et al, 2002).

I don't see how we can say the Milky Way galaxy will remain «as is» for 800 billlion years when it is going to merge with Andromeda and form a giant elliptical galaxy in a mere couple of billion years?

Astronomers have long wondered why giant elliptical galaxies stop forming stars, becoming dominated over time with small, long - lived stars with a distinctive reddish tinge.

His first original discovery of a galaxy, M49, a giant elliptical member of the Virgo Cluster, occurred in 1771.

Werner and his colleagues studied eight giant elliptical galaxies using the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

Life is most likely to evolve in giant elliptical galaxies, whereas dwarf galaxies are thought to be the least hospitable — with the spiral Milky Way falling in between.

Some ellipticals are present in the central part of the cluster including a giant elliptical at the center (M87) that has become so large by gobbling up nearby galaxies that were attracted by its enormous gravity.

When the giant elliptical gets large enough, it can gobble up nearby galaxies whole.

The discovery solves a riddle in understanding how giant elliptical galaxies developed quickly in the early universe and why they stopped producing stars soon after.

The third possibility is that the cold gas fueling the chain of star formation originates from a high - temperature shock wave created when the two giant elliptical galaxies crash together.

The astronomers note that the galaxy is only about 2 degree from M87, a giant elliptical galaxy near the cluster's centre.

There aren't any monstrous galaxies left in the modern Universe, but astronomers believe that these young galaxies matured into giant elliptical galaxies which are seen in the modern Universe.

«There's basically only one process we know of that will produce a giant elliptical depression... and that's a giant impact,» says M.I.T. planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews - Hanna, lead author of the report, published in Nature.

Now researchers think they've identified a sprouting seed of a giant elliptical galaxy, churning out new stars just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

Hubble observations indicate that the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies will merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy beginning about 4 billion years from now.

Most clusters in the universe today are dominated by giant elliptical galaxies in which the dust and gas has already been formed into stars.

«Red and dead» is the unflattering label astronomers attach to giant elliptical galaxies full of aged stars.

NGC1052 - DF2 does reside in a region where such things could conceivably occur, lying near a giant elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart.

Giant elliptical galaxies like these are much more common than expected for the early universe.

This is the first direct observational evidence that at least some of the earliest so - called «dead» galaxies — where star formation stopped — somehow evolve from a Milky Way - shaped disk into the giant elliptical galaxies we see today.

GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD The most likely galaxy to host habitable planets might be a giant elliptical such as ESO 325 - G004 (pictured, center), which is about 450 million light - years away in the constellation Centaurus.

Two giant ellipticals (NGC 4874 & NGC 4889) occupy the central part of the cluster.

The giant ellipticals (called «cD galaxies») found close to the centers of galaxies were formed from the collision and merging of galaxies.

«Our fluffy objects add to the great diversity of galaxies that were previously known, from giant ellipticals that outshine the Milky Way, to ultra compact dwarfs,» said University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Jean Brodie.

Not exact matches

«Giant galaxies die from the inside out: Star formation shuts down in the centers of elliptical galaxies first.»

According to this theory, the companion would have to be in an elliptical orbit that carries it close to the red giant's puffed - up atmosphere every 8.5 years.

She and her team also showed the giants pull the few remaining inner planets into more elliptical and inclined orbits — the same kind seen in many of the single systems Kepler has spotted.

The giants pull the few remaining inner planets into more elliptical and inclined orbits — the same kind seen in many of the single systems Kepler has spotted (arxiv.org/abs/1609.08110).

The Andromeda galaxy is a giant spiral like our own Milky Way, and a dwarf elliptical galaxy, NGC 205, is also shown.

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the Universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now.

The moons are inclined, highly elliptical retrograde orbits with an average distance of 21 million kms from the giant planet.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the center of giant Virgo Cluster elliptical galaxy M60.