Sentences with phrase «in nearby galaxies»

In this illustration, a midsize black hole in a nearby galaxy consumes gas from a relatively cool disk.

A newfound star in a nearby galaxy appears to have cheated death by blowing up at least twice as a supernova.

An unknown object in the nearby galaxy M82 has started sending out radio waves unlike anything seen before.

A black hole in the nearby galaxy M82 weighs in at 428 solar masses, give or take a hundred suns or so, they report today (Aug. 17) in the journal Nature.

A Yale University analysis of one such event in a nearby galaxy provides an unprecedented look at the process.

A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.

Since it was first discovered in 1992, the curious shape of the Honeycomb Nebula, which lurks in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, has been a puzzle.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

«But Gaia also measures star positions in nearby galaxies», explains University of Groningen astronomer Davide Massari.

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

Modern astronomers have yet to see one in our Milky Way but have managed to witness a few dozen in nearby galaxies with known progenitor stars.

If two neutron stars were to merge in a nearby galaxy, the resulting wave would squish and stretch the space - time near Earth by about a millionth of the diameter of an atom as it passed through us.

MUSE's science goals include delving into the early epochs of the Universe to probe the mechanisms of galaxy formation and studying both the motions of material in nearby galaxies and their chemical properties.

This finding dovetails with a similar nondetection in a nearby galaxy and suggests the explosion arose instead when two white dwarfs that were in orbit around each other merged and blew up — hinting that more Type Ia supernovae may stem from double white dwarfs than astronomers had thought.

In the past few years, the orbiting Swift x-ray observatory has found dozens of these extraordinarily bright black holes — or AGN — in nearby galaxies by detecting the high - energy x-rays they emit.

A speeding star may have been flung away by a black hole lurking unnoticed in a nearby galaxy, new research suggests.

This image, which is part of the DEGAS study of dense gas in nearby galaxies, shows the power of the GBT for observations of extended objects beyond our Galaxy.

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

«Ghostly remnants of galaxy interactions uncovered in a nearby galaxy group.»

The results are consistent with the black hole masses that are being found with the Hubble telescope in nearby galaxies.

By comparing the results of those simulations with observations of heavy elements in nearby galaxies, the researchers hope to determine whether primordial black holes are indeed responsible for Earth's gold, platinum and uranium.

Using the Keck - I 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii, Filippenko's group measured the chemical abundances of gases near the locations of Cepheid variable stars in the nearby galaxies hosting Type Ia supernovae.

«We saw a bright blue source of light in a nearby galaxy — the first time the glowing debris from a neutron star merger had ever been observed,» recalled Josh Simon, another of the Carnegie team's leaders on this discovery.

Model of molecular clouds in SDP.81 (left, 11.7 billion light years away) shown to scale with the Orion Molecular Cloud (center, 1500 light years away) in our Milky Way, and a giant star forming nebula NGC 604 in the nearby galaxy M33 (right, 2.7 million light years away).

They made their best measurement to date in a recent study of a supernova first seen 27 years ago in a nearby galaxy.

Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image molecules in nearby galaxies at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.

«Close galaxies are much brighter, and we have a very good method of determining the amount of oxygen in nearby galaxies,» Sanders said.

(iii) Far - infrared spectroscopy of dust and ice features will address uncertainties in the mass and composition of dust in galaxies, and the contributions of supernovae to the interstellar dust budget will be quantified by photometry and monitoring of supernova remnants in nearby galaxies.

«The difference tells us that this galaxy has a large - scale, coherent magnetic field, similar to those we see in nearby galaxies in the present - day universe,» Mao said.

But researchers say they have now confirmed such an object in the nearby galaxy M82 — a black hole about as massive as 400 suns.

The payload is the Australian Space Telescope called Endeavour which was built to obtain images of violent explosive events in nearby galaxies.

This estimate takes into account the fact that the ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun was considerably larger in the distant past, as confirmed by astronomical measurements of younger Sun - like stars in the nearby galaxy.

Two black holes in nearby galaxies have been observed in X-rays by ESA's XMM - Newton space observatory devouring their companion stars at a rate exceeding classically understood limits, and in the process, kicking out matter into surrounding space at astonishing speeds of around a quarter the speed of light.

«Caught in the act: Astronomers find a rare supernova «impostor» in a nearby galaxy.»

In the early 2000s, when looking for other objects in a nearby galaxy, he and his colleagues captured an image filled with the echoing light of three known supernovas.

Using the Subaru Telescope, researchers at the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Russia and Kyoto University in Japan have found evidence that enigmatic objects in nearby galaxies — called ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs)-- exhibit strong outflows that are created as matter falls onto their black holes at unexpectedly high rates.

Earlier this year, U.S. and Japanese astronomers published a paper on their discovery of one star in a nearby galaxy that brightened and dimmed precisely as if a primordial black hole was passing in front of it.

Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope of very distant galaxies show more distorted shapes, bent spiral arms, and irregular fragments than in nearby galaxies (seen in a more recent stage of their evolution).

^ Humphreys, R. M. 1978, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Studies of luminous stars in nearby galaxies.

From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.

By comparing the observed brightness of both types of stars in those nearby galaxies, the astronomers could then accurately measure their true brightness and therefore calculate distances to roughly 300 Type Ia supernovae in far - flung galaxies.