Sentences with phrase «giant elliptical galaxies in»
Most clusters in the universe today are dominated by giant elliptical galaxies in which the dust and gas has already been formed into stars.
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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?
Another target is the supermassive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy in M87.
Not exact matches
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.
«Giant galaxies die from the inside out: Star formation shuts down in the centers of elliptical galaxies first.»
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
His first original discovery of a galaxy, M49, a giant elliptical member of the Virgo Cluster, occurred in 1771.
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.
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 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.
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).
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).