Sentences with phrase «hole at the centre»

The spiral shape is commonplace, with a massive black hole at the centre, surrounded by a bulge of old stars, and arms winding outwards where relatively young stars like the Sun are found.

HAWC can also pick up gamma rays from other galaxies, perhaps caused by black holes at their centres.

The supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 5195 has a mass equivalent to 19 million Suns.

Almost all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres.

The image shows the X-ray and H - alpha arcs, as well as the radio outflows from the supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 5195.

M87's black hole, when viewed from Earth, would be the same apparent size as the nearer black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

But the trio swung too close to a black hole at the centre of their star cluster.

«Maybe the huge black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and other galaxies are bridges to different universes,» Poplawski says.

IF OUR best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast.

NASA's Fermi space telescope has seen signs of such photons around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, where dark matter is expected to cluster.

The black hole at the centre of an active galaxy feeds on a circling disc of gas.

Most astronomers believe that a quasar is a massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy, greedily sucking in stars and gas, which become so hot that they give off tremendous amounts of energy.

A cosmic coincidence hints that high - energy neutrinos and superfast cosmic rays both come from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy

The Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has detected a glow around the centre of the galaxy, which some researchers think could be caused by particles of dark matter crashing together and being annihilated around the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

The folds on this paper ring are precision - made by a laser so that when it's compressed, the hole at its centre stays the same size and protects its contents

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

If the explosion was a single event, it was probably associated with a large black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.

This glittering cluster contains over 100,000 stars, and could also hide a rare type of black hole at its centre.

Of the two possibilities it is more likely that Messier 15 harbours a black hole at its centre, as does the massive globular cluster Mayall II.

The jets of gas are thought to be driven by the energy released when matter is sucked into a black hole at the centre of a galaxy.

This may explain why jellyfish galaxies seem more likely than other types of galaxies to have active black holes at their centres.

Most large galaxies we see have supermassive black holes at their centres.

This composite image shows the motion of the dusty cloud G2 as it closes in on, and then passes, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

Because of these flares, Cygnus X-3 has been dubbed a «microquasar», since it resembles quasars, the flaring supermassive black holes at the centres of some galaxies.

Gullberg and her colleagues believe that the explanation lies with powerful jets of radio waves that are ejected from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Spiderweb Galaxy.

They are powered by supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies, surrounded by a rapidly spinning disk - like region of gas.

The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is far less massive than previously thought, claims an astronomer in the US.

«It's very unusual when a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy actually eats a star, we've probably only seen about 20 of them,» she said.

In 2011 ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) discovered a gas cloud with several times the mass of Earth accelerating towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way [1].

Simulations now suggest black holes at the centres of galaxies may be the cause.

[1] The black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is estimated to have a mass of about four million times that of the Sun and is formally known as Sgr A * (pronounced Sagittarius A star).

The study of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy and its environment is rated number one in the list of ESO's top ten astronomical discoveries.

New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.

This galaxy has a black hole at its centre: jets flowing away from that create the strong radio source detected with ASKAP.

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy has begun to chow down on a passing gas cloud three times Earth's mass.

Data from the Illustris project, a large computer simulation of the evolution and formation of galaxies, suggests that the black holes at the centre of every galaxy are helping to send matter into the loneliest places in the universe.

The jet consists of electrons and other sub-atomic particles which are being propelled outwards by a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

When this happened, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the second galaxy began disrupting the first one's feeding frenzy, thereby preventing accretion — which is what made Markarian 1018 shine brightly in the first place.

Normally, an «active» galaxy — one that has a supermassive black hole at its centre — shines very brightly.

An artist's impression of a supermassive black hole at the centre surrounded by matter flowing onto the black hole in what is termed an accretion disk.

Various astronomers have speculated that large volumes of interstellar gas collect and collapse into supermassive black holes at the centres of quasars and galaxies.

We are understanding a little more about the Super Massive Black Hole at the centre of our galaxy and observations are also revealing that Einstein was right about his theory of general relativity.

MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs around young stars where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies.

This artist's impression shows the orbits of three of the stars very close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

Astronomers can't find any sign of the black hole at the centre of the quasar SDSS J1011 +5442, and they couldn't be happier.

A close encounter with the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is typically presumed the most plausible mechanism for kicking these stars out of the galaxy.

STARS plunging into the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy can explain two huge bubbles of gamma rays that NASA's Fermi space telescope discovered last year.

«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.

The main goal of BlackHoleCam and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is to make the first ever image of Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.