Sentences with phrase «into galactic nuclei»
A far - flung space telescope is peering into galactic nuclei to spot one for the first time
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If gas falls into the object, it can heat up and glow, turning the region just outside the black hole into a quasar — a brilliant galactic nucleus that can outshine the entire Milky Way.
In addition to the bright and chaotic features, each merging galaxy of NGC 5256 contains an active galactic nucleus, where gas and other debris are fed into a hungry supermassive black hole.
Such an «active galactic nucleus» (AGN) presumably arises when ultrahot gas falls into a galaxy's central black hole, and common wisdom held that the matter is tipped into the black hole when galaxies collide.