Sentences with phrase «into supermassive»

Later, the remaining airships are sucked into the supermassive Black Hole, along with the observatory and the castle.

Quasars are among the most luminous objects in the universe, and generally are believed to be powered by material being drawn into a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, releasing large amounts of energy.

A conceptual rendition of gas being driven into a supermassive black hole following a supernova explosion.

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

Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.

Meanwhile, a correlation between the rate at which stars form in the central regions of galaxies and the amount of gas that falls into supermassive black holes (mass accretion rate) was known to exist, leading some scientists to suggest that the activity involved in star formation fuels the growth of black holes.

The team also succeeded in explaining, with a theoretical model, that the actual changes (balance of inflow and outflow) in gas levels they observed were the result of the increasing amount of gas falling into the supermassive black holes within the gas disks enhanced by strong turbulence generated by supernova explosions (an activity associated with star formation) when a star inside the dense gas disks dies.

A conceptual rendition of gas being driven into a supermassive black hole following a supernova explosion Strong turbulence caused by supernova explosions inside a dense molecular gas disk in the central region of a galaxy disturbs the stable motion of gas.

Furthermore, the team did not see evidence of merging galaxies, which were thought to kick - start the flow of material into the supermassive black holes.

But recently, a survey has found several quasars — bright cores of galaxies, powered by matter falling into a supermassive black hole — that existed less than a billion years after the big bang.

Resembling spotlights at a Hollywood movie premier, such beams are probably generated as matter plunges into a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

The findings have scientists puzzling over how early black holes grew into the supermassive beasts they are today without a steady diet of gas, dust, stars, and other fodder.

The detector will pick up gravitational waves generated by binary supermassive black holes, ultra-compact binaries and small black holes falling into supermassive black holes.

Eventually, in 10 - 100 quintillion years, these stellar remnants will either have escaped their galaxy's pull, or will have spiraled into the supermassive black hole at the center.

Not exact matches

The disc grows to a point where the supermassive black hole can no longer accrete or «digest» efficiently and matter is blasted out into the surrounding interstellar medium.

OBESE black holes, not stars, may have lit up the first galaxies — and could have grown into the earliest supermassive black holes.

This material could eventually fall into the galaxy where it could fuel future star birth and feed the supermassive black hole.

The central galaxy in this cluster harbors a supermassive black hole that is in the process of devouring star - forming gas, which fuels a pair of powerful jets that erupt from the black hole in opposite directions into intergalactic space.

The process will likely shrink the small black holes into an ever - tighter clump around the supermassive black hole as time goes on, says astrophysicist Abraham Loeb of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The detection of a supermassive black hole merger would offer new insights into how massive galaxies and black holes evolve, Mingarelli says.

«Our research has shown how space based detectors will provide new insights into the nature of supermassive black holes.»

Studying first generation supernovae provides a glimpse into what the Universe looked like when the first stars, galaxies, and supermassive black holes formed, but to date it has been difficult to distinguish a first generation supernova from an ordinary supernova.

Most astronomers think that these objects generate their enormous amounts of energy as gravity and friction heat material that falls into a central «supermassive» black hole.

Now, a new theoretical model reveals that they all could be shot out into space after cosmic rays are accelerated by powerful jets from supermassive black holes.

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.

Similar to how water in a bathtub forms a whirlpool as it goes down a drain, the gas and magnetic fields that feed a supermassive black hole swirl to form a rotating disk — a tangled spaghetti of magnetic field lines mixed into a broth of hot gas.

Akira's gravity pulls Tetsuo's gas into its central supermassive black hole, fueling winds that have the power to heat Akira's gas.

«A few hundred - million years later, it has grown into a billion - solar - mass supermassive black hole.

Their tendency would be to cluster near the centre of galaxies, making them more likely to pass near the supermassive black holes that sit there and run into the accretion discs of gas that surround them.

Pérez - González explained this will allow scientists to study how gases transformed into stars in the first galaxies, and to better understand the first phases in the formation of supermassive black holes, including how those black holes affect the formation of their home galaxy.

After charting stars in the heart of our galaxy traveling at speeds up to 50 times faster than Earth circles the sun, scientists are convinced that a supermassive black hole is pulling the strings, as only the relentless grip of a supermassive black hole could keep these frenzied stars locked into orbit within the galactic center.

The researchers conclude that the violent merging of two galaxies as their black holes spiral together into one supermassive black hole may be what powers AGN.

In October 2015, astronomers watched as a supermassive black hole in the galaxy PGC 043234 — 290 million light - years away — shredded a star, scooped it into the accretion disk and then ate it for space lunch.

The orbiting motion of the accretion disk can trace the «death spiral» of its matter as it falls into the darkness of what the astrophysicists measure to be a supermassive black hole.

«Minor merger kicks supermassive black hole into high gear.»

In quasars, supermassive black holes are surrounded by whirling disks of hot gas that give off enormous amounts of radiation as they gradually spiral into oblivion.

Such events are important because they give us a glimpse into the quiet supermassive black holes thought to make up some 90 % of those in existence.

Those furious feeding rates still seem to defy the black holes» supermassive size: A 100 - solar - mass black hole accreting at the limit should take about 800 million years to reach a billion solar masses, even taking into account that it would eat faster as it grew.

One idea is that massive gas clouds or supermassive stars collapsed directly into a massive black hole.

The results give important insights into what happens when a star is destroyed by a supermassive black hole, but also how newly launched jets behave in a pristine environment.

Their inflated sizes and close proximity to one another would make these stars collide, triggering a domino effect that eventually collects all the stars in the cluster into a single supermassive star 10,000 times the mass of the sun.

Quasars are caused by the close encounter of two supermassive black holes, each with billions of solar masses and crammed into tight quarters at the center of a galaxy.

The scientists incorporated a variety of physical processes in the calculations, including three that are considered particularly important for the development of the visible universe: first, the condensation of matter into stars, second, their further evolution when the surrounding matter is heated by stellar winds and supernova explosions and enriched with chemical elements, and third, the feedback of supermassive black holes that eject massive amounts of energy into the universe.

It is a Seyfert galaxy that is dominated by something known as an Active Galactic Nucleus — its core is thought to contain a supermassive black hole that is emitting huge amounts of radiation, pouring energetic X-rays out into the universe.

Active, supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies tend to fall into two categories: those that are hidden by dust, and those that are exposed.

Not coincidentally, galaxy mergers would also trigger the birth of a quasar by pouring material into the central supermassive black hole.

This will open up an entirely new window into the gravitational - wave universal, allowing us to understand galaxy evolution, and is currently the only known way in which we can study supermassive black hole binaries, and how they formed.

The black hole came into existence billions of years ago, perhaps as very massive stars collapsed at the end of their life cycles and coalesced into a single, supermassive object, Ghez said.

When a supermassive black hole does exactly that to a star — sphagettifying the burning ball of gas into shreds and devouring it as it comes too close to the black hole's event horizon — the phenomenon is called a tidal disruption event.

The activities seen in the AGNs are caused by gaseous matter falling into, and interacting with, the supermassive central objects mentioned above, according to the current consensus of most researchers.