Sentences with phrase «massive central object»

The central region of the Milky Way, as those of many other galaxies, is more densely crouded with stars than the outer region, and contains a massive central object, Sagittarius A *.

Investigations of these results have revealed that this galaxy contains a massive central object of about 2 billion solar masses.

Wherever such a massive central object is feeding on a particularly rich diet of disrupted stars, gas, and dust, the conditions are right for the formation of a jet.

Not exact matches

They tell us that there is a central, massive object in the outflow origin, with a surrounding accretion disc.»

Astronomers have seen massive stars fall toward some central object and whip around it, like a comet around the sun, and fly back out.

«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.»

Instead of being sucked directly into the massive object, the material first forms a whirling «accretion disk» that closely orbits the central object.

Our sample of 107 YSO candidates was selected based on IRAC colors from the high spatial resolution, high sensitivity Spitzer / IRAC images in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), which spans th... ▽ More We present results from our spectroscopic study, using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) onboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to identify massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Galactic Center (GC).

Astronomers noted that in M87, the central gas was circling in a disk at very high speeds around a small but massive object.