Sentences with phrase «like galaxy clusters»

This so - called «cold» dark matter accurately describes large - scale structures like galaxy clusters.

Massive objects like galaxy clusters [2] warp and distort this space - time.

Not exact matches

God: You know how all that matter, that was generated after the bang, has started to clump and form all these cool features, like stars and galaxies, and even clusters of galaxies?

[Sukanya Chakrabarti et al, Clustered Cepheid Variables 90 kiloparsec from the Galactic Center] Dwarf galaxies like this one are thought to contain more dark matter than regular matter.

The star is visible because the galaxy cluster's gravity bent spacetime around the cluster, making it act like a cosmic magnifying glass.

Assuming that's the case, the Coma Cluster's population of diffuse galaxies might be the opposite of galaxies like Malin 1.

Some dark galaxies, like those in the Coma cluster but with even less hydrogen, will be tougher to bring into the fold.

What this means is that it guarantees crystal - clear and contrast - rich views of deep sky objects, like galaxies, nebulae, planets, and sparkling star clusters.

The immense gravity from clusters of galaxies warps the light coming from more distant objects, acting like a cosmic magnifying glass.

Scientists have struggled to investigate dark matter since 1933, when astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed a cluster of galaxies moving so fast that, like Hubble's dwarves, they should have been ripping apart.

James Binney at the University of Oxford says some sort of MOND - like behaviour may apply within galaxies while on larger scales, as in galactic clusters, dark matter would hold sway.

The doomed galaxies would have been pulled apart like taffy if they plunged through the center of the galaxy cluster where gravitational tidal forces are strongest.

In the Fornax cluster (right) the core cloud is swept back like a comet's tail toward the top of the image, indicating it is moving through even more diffuse gas on a collision course with the galaxy at lower left.

It might not be measurable on local scales, like here in the solar system, or in any matter - strewn environs, such as galaxy clusters.

«The region around the Milky Way should look like the Coma cluster,» Kochanek says, referring to a famous, dense grouping of galaxies.

A spheroidal ring projection would mirror the strings of clusters of galaxies seen to surround voids in the universe; voids and string - like formations are seen and predicted by many models of the cosmos.

In terms of mass they lie between the more commonly found stellar - mass and supermassive types of black hole [3], and could tell us about how black holes grow and evolve within clusters like Messier 15, and within galaxies.

In the bottom box is a reconstructed image, based on modeling, that shows what the galaxy would look like if the galaxy cluster were not present.

If they are connected gravitationally, then they will eventually form the core of a massive cluster of galaxies like the nearby Virgo Cluster, which boasts 2000 mcluster of galaxies like the nearby Virgo Cluster, which boasts 2000 mCluster, which boasts 2000 members.

Known as an ultra-compact dwarf, this type of system has up to a billion stars and can be similar in mass to a galaxy, but it is compact and looks more like a star cluster.

A new study based on observations with the Hubble Space Telescope has shown that the most massive galaxies in the universe, which are found in clusters like this, have been aligned with the distribution of neighboring galaxies for at least 10 billion years.

«High - energy neutrinos are produced along with gamma rays by extremely high - energy radiation known as cosmic rays in objects like star - forming galaxies, galaxy clusters, supermassive black holes, or gamma - ray bursts.

The lens could lie within or nearby the galaxy, and could be a collection of thousands of stars like a globular cluster.

Photographer Robert Franke likes the left - to - right flow and variety of galaxies in this view of the massive cluster 250 million light - years away.

And massive clusters of galaxies ought to be strung along filaments of dark matter, like pearls on a chain.

Open clusters like NGC 2367 are a common sight in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, and tend to form in their host's outer regions.

Faint objects like galaxies and globular clusters are clear to the naked eye from here; the night I visited, the night sky was bright enough to read by, the Milky Way was lit up like a celestial highway and faint meteors continually peppered the heavens.

Gravitational lenses form when an intervening massive object, like a galaxy or galaxy cluster, bends the light from more distant galaxies.

«Rich groups of galaxies like the Coma Cluster are very, very rare, but there are quite a few galaxies the size of NGC 1600 that reside in average - size galaxy groups,» Ma said.

The supermassive black hole found in NGC 1600 is one of the first successes of the project, proving the value of a systematic search of the night sky rather than looking only in dense areas like those occupied by large clusters of galaxies, such as the Coma and Virgo clusters.

Astronomers have long known that at the largest scale, the universe looks like sea - foam: clusters of galaxies surrounding large, empty bubbles.

It was once possible to confuse faint dwarf galaxies like Segue 2 with globular clusters — tightly bound clumps of stars that are also known to orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way.

Small galaxy groups are about 1000 times more common than large clusters, so there should be many more Bullet - like groups.

Astronomers think that galaxies grow from scraggly clusters of stars to elegant spirals like the Milky Way by merging and pooling their resources.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

An image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of Abell 1689, a massive cluster of galaxies whose gravitational pull is so strong that it bends light, acting like a lens.

Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant «cosmic lens,» bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

This statement is certainly true if we assume that the only gravitational force present is that exerted by visible matter, but it is true even if we assume that every galaxy in the cluster, like the Milky Way, is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that contains 90 percent of the mass of the galaxy.»

The dark matter behavior that fits the observed galaxy clustering best comes from dark matter made of particles that are massive and weakly interacting, meaning that they do not feel the stronger forces like electromagnetism or the nuclear forces and respond only to gravity.

The galaxies clump together into clusters and the galaxy clusters gather together into huge string - like superclusters with big gaps (voids) in between.

The Milky Way (like other spiral galaxies) is surrounded by a large halo region which contains globular clusters, large clouds of hydrogen gas, and a huge mass of the mysterious dark matter.

On Friday, NASA released an edge - on image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 5308 with a host of star clusters encircling it, «like bees buzzing around a hive.»

Hubble's «eye» is so sharp that it was able to pick out the fuzzy globular clusters, which, at that distance, look like individual stars bunched up around the galaxies, instead of groupings of stars.

On Friday, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) released an edge - on image of this lenticular galaxy, with a host of star clusters encircling it «like bees buzzing around a hive.»

[16] Like Mayall II, Omega Centauri has a range of metallicities and stellar ages that suggests that it did not all form at once (as globular clusters are thought to form) and may in fact be the remainder of the core of a smaller galaxy long since incorporated into the Milky Way.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

The study's results suggest that compact galaxies in galaxy clusters like CL J1001 likely form their stars during brief and more violent outbursts than galaxies that are outside such clusters.

Imagine a swarm of bees; a cluster of galaxies is sort of like that.

The properties of Terzan 5 are not like the ones found in a globular cluster, but they are very similar to the stellar population found in the Milky Way's galactic bulge — a tightly packed central region of the galaxy.

AMiBA, a millimeter interferometer like ALMA, was constructed by ASIAA (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics) and National Taiwan University for polarimetry of microwave background radiation and detection of distant clusters of galaxies using the Sunyaev Zeldovich effect.