Sentences with phrase «massive central black holes»

Not exact matches

«NGC 1277's black hole could be many times more massive than its largest known compete tor, which is estimated but not confirmed to be between 6 billion and 37 billion solar masses in size.It makes up about 59 percent of its host galaxy's central mass — the bulge of stars at the core.

Galaxies with more massive black holes turn out to have a higher concentration of stars in their central bulges, and consequently, the starlight is brighter in that region.

Its central black hole is as massive as 16 million suns, and the region of space surrounding it shines with the strength of 1 trillion suns — energy derived, in part, from intense frictional heating within the disk of gas being sucked into the maw.

This evidence suggests a possible union between the 3C 186 system and another galaxy, each with central, massive black holes that may have eventually merged.

Weighing more than 1 billion suns, the rogue black hole is the most massive black hole ever detected to have been kicked out of its central home.

One possible interpretation of the discovery, Loeb says, is «that we are witnessing a short - lived phase in the evolution of clusters, just before the central massive black hole starts its feedback.

Black holes and their host galaxies have a tight relationship: Regardless of their size, the central swarms of stars in galaxies are always about 500 times more massive than the giant black holes they contain (ScienceNOW, 5 June 2Black holes and their host galaxies have a tight relationship: Regardless of their size, the central swarms of stars in galaxies are always about 500 times more massive than the giant black holes they contain (ScienceNOW, 5 June 2black holes they contain (ScienceNOW, 5 June 2000).

It takes a massive amount of gas dumped on the galaxy's central black hole to create such strong energies.

«Using measurements that were done at BYU, we were able to determine that the mass of the central black hole for this galaxy was about 8 million times the mass of the sun — that's a really really massive object.»

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of gaMASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of gamassive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

Using a similar technique, but out of a different sample, NGC 1277 was identified as unique in that it has a central black hole that is much more massive than it should be for a galaxy of that size.

In particular, the explanation given by Mancuso and colleagues is based on the close relation that exists between star formation and the growth of the central black hole inside massive galaxies.

NIRC2 is probably best known for helping to provide definitive proof of a central massive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

His team found that once a galaxy gets massive enough, its central black hole ramps up the rate at which it devours the gas around it.

This calculation enabled them to determine that NGC 4151's central black hole is 40 percent more massive than thought.

Stars close to the black - hole «whirlpool» orbit at a faster rate, in keeping with fundamental laws of orbital motion around a massive central body, as described by Johannes Kepler four centuries ago.