Sentences with phrase «in giant galaxies»

Elbert said he expects many more gravitation wave detections so that he and other astronomers can determine if black holes collide mostly in giant galaxies.

Astronomers tinted the dark matter concentrations in the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689 blue.

In this scenario, stars circling in the giant galaxy's center came close to the twin black holes.

Not exact matches

What it's about: In a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker gets tangled up with a Jedi knight, pilot Han Solo, a giant bear thing called a wookiee, and two droids — all in order to save the galaxy and rescue Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth VadeIn a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker gets tangled up with a Jedi knight, pilot Han Solo, a giant bear thing called a wookiee, and two droids — all in order to save the galaxy and rescue Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vadein order to save the galaxy and rescue Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader.

Collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies should start around 4 billion years from now (I'll have to stay up late and watch that one), and the sun should g red giant in 5 billion years (stock up on sunscreen).

There's no difference if there was a super giant star in the centre of the galaxy gravitationally speaking, a black hole's gravitational pull is proportional to its mass, which is estimated at around 4 million solar masses.

Robot lions which could combine into a giant robot dude to fight space monster - robots in a galaxy run by an evil empire of purple guys.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Giant lenses in space are at the forefront of efforts to explore the origins of galaxies.

The gravitationally sticky stuff catches galaxies and causes gases to adhere to filaments, which stretch between the star clusters in a giant cosmic web.

RIGHT ROUND Dwarf galaxies near the giant galaxy Centaurus A, shown here in a composite of images from three different telescopes, seem to orbit it in an unexpectedly organized loop.

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.

Earlier research with NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory revealed that the jets from this AGN are carving out a pair of giant «radio bubbles,» huge cavities in the hot, diffuse plasma that surrounds the galaxy.

The Galactic Cushion The Hubble Space Telescope recently beamed back pictures of 29 dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster that, by all appearances, should have been torn to shreds by the gravitational tidal forces of their giant neighbors.

Born in red giant stars or supernovas, they drift through the galaxy and eventually mingle with interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the places where new stars and planets arise.

In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.

Gal - Yam thinks the conditions in the host galaxy could be like those in the early universe, when theory says such giant stars were born and died in great numbers, seeding the universe with heavy elements.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

It also lends weight to the popular theory that a quasar is born in the collision of two giant galaxies, similar to the Milky Way.

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.

GALACTIC QUARTET The way invisible dark matter warped the light from distant galaxies, shown here as the swirl of material surrounding four giant galaxies in cluster Abell 3827 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photograph), suggested that dark matter can separate from stars when galaxies collide.

It is what holds together giant clusters of galaxies, but it is also what I experience every time I sit down in a chair or take a step.

General relativity also is the bedrock of gravitational lensing, which uses the gravity of stars and galaxies as a giant magnifying glass to zoom in on farther cosmic objects.

In the spectrum, the team found evidence of a large concentration of neutral hydrogen clouds close to the galaxy, indicating the presence of a giant cluster of embryonic galaxies.

Stellar motions in the core of the giant galaxy do indeed suggest that it may have experienced a black hole merger in the not - too - distant past, says Gebhardt.

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

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

In more recent studies the universe appears as a collection of giant bubble - like voids separated by sheets and filaments of galaxies, with the superclusters appearing as occasional relatively dense nodes.

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

Very large yet faint galaxies have been found where no one would have expected them — in the middle of a giant galaxy cluster.

Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million - degree gas (seen in blue in this artists» rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space.

To measure the dark matter in hundreds of galaxy clusters and continue this investigation, Durham University has just finished helping to build the new SuperBIT telescope, which gets a clear view by rising above the Earth's atmosphere under a giant helium balloon.

In my first project as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star - forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxIn my first project as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star - forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxin 1978, I measured the rotational velocities of star - forming giant molecular clouds in the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxin the outer part of the disk of our Milky Way galaxy.

The giant scope will also examine the composition of matter in distant young galaxies.

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.

Such a smash - up with a red giant would unleash much more energy than the decimation of a comet, so would have to occur in a distant galaxy to avoid appearing brighter than what was observed.

The giant black hole in the middle of our galaxy stays pretty quiet most of the time, flaring up only occasionally.

A giant black hole in a galaxy a billion light years away has been caught in the act of butchering a star — the first time this has been seen, astronomers announced this week.

The new discovery of a large number of small planets suggests that they are abundant in our galaxy, and outnumber Jupiter - sized giants by 3 to 1.

Some 60 million light - years in length, this thread funnels all kinds of matter — visible and not — from intergalactic space into a giant cluster of galaxies called MACS J0717.5 +3745.

Using the giant Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii and an innovative sky - glow - subtraction technique, Glazebrook's team analyzed spectra from 300 galaxies.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a giant star exploded in a supernova so enormous and violent that it blew itself entirely out of existence.

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

Most other giant spirals lack large, close - in, gas - rich satellite galaxies like the Magellanic Clouds.

Giant clouds of molecular gas — the most massive objects in our galaxy — are the birthplaces of stars.

Astronomers using both space - based and ground - based telescopes, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, have analyzed the destruction of the giant star, located in the galaxy NGC 1260 about 240 million light - years away.

But Fox suspects that other giant spirals also get replenished when gas - rich satellites fall toward them; we just happen to live in one of the few galaxies where this process is occurring today, giving astronomers a ringside seat on the refueling of a giant galaxy.

They used a supercomputer to simulate the effect that living in a giant cluster of galaxies has on the shape and color of its members.

This finding promises to tell astronomers more about the evolution and structure of majestic giant spirals, one of the most common types of galaxies in the universe.