Sentences with phrase «giant elliptical galaxy»

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet - light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming along the jets of active black holes found in the centers of giant elliptical galaxies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

At first glance, M87 (also known as NGC 4486) appears to be an ordinary giant elliptical galaxy; one of many ellipticals in the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies.

«What we believe we are seeing in these distant clusters are giant elliptical galaxies in the process of being formed,» says Dr Clements.

Giant elliptical galaxies that are more than twice as massive as the Milky Way are far more likely to harbor habitable worlds, researchers suggest.

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.

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.

Now a large, new study contradicts this assumption, finding that giant elliptical galaxies — round or ellipsoidal systems full of ancient stars — spawned an excess of little stars just 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.

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.

The brightest galaxy in the cluster is a giant elliptical galaxy named NGC 1407, which is about as bright as our own Galaxy, the Milky Way.

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

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.

This image shows a composite view of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.