Sentences with phrase «massive known galaxy»

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«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.

Within the massive scope of our known universe, hundreds of billions of light years wide, there's no galaxy, no life form, nothing that remotely cares about what I did or didn't do with my life.

Lotz is leading a three - year effort, known as the Frontier Fields project, to stare at six massive clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope and hunt for the seeds of galaxies similar to our own.

That massive group of stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).

Andromeda II is the least massive known example of merging of galaxies so far and illustrates the scale - free character og the formation og galaxies down to the lowest galactic mass scales.

And at the center of it all is a celebrity couple: the first known pairing of black holes and the most massive ones found outside of the cores of galaxies.

In the early universe, galaxies collided relatively often and their black holes sometimes merged, growing more massive in the process and sometimes birthing hugely energetic objects known as quasars.

They have proposed that the galactic double is a recent arrival to the cluster, and is currently falling in towards the cluster centre and the galaxy Messier 87 lurking there — one of the most massive galaxies known.

Astronomers captured these two interacting galaxies, collectively known as ADFS - 27, as they began the gradual process of merging into a single, massive elliptical galaxy.

Discovered by Impey and his colleagues in 1986, it is the most massive spiral galaxy known, about 20 times more massive than the Milky Way.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.

Some possible scenarios: incredibly massive black holes erupting in jets of matter, galaxies colliding or star - producing factories known as starburst galaxies.

Although both galaxy types host voracious supermassive black holes known as active galactic nuclei, which actively swallow matter and emit massive amounts of radiation, Type I galaxies appear brighter to astronomers» telescopes.

The death of massive stars is reasonably well known — most blow their innards across galaxies in titanic explosions called supernovae — but their birth is another story.

A galaxy, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to elements heavier than iron, which are released by supernovae.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

To make a clear distinction between galaxies and globular clusters, astronomers decided that true galaxies, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to heavy elements.

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

The galaxy cluster known as Abell 2218, which is very massive and located between the galaxy and Earth, bent and magnified its light.

M81, also known as Bode's Galaxy, is located at a distance of 11.7 million light - years, and is one of the nearest massive spiral galaxies similar to the Milky Way.

Segue 2, discovered in 2009 as part of the massive Sloan Digital Sky Survey, is one of the faintest known galaxies, with light output just 900 times that of the sun.

Kamuela, Hawaii — The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together.The... Read more»

This is the most distant confirmed galaxy known, and it appears to also be one of the most massive sources at that time.

It has been known for long that some of these massive black holes eject spectacular plasma jets at a near speed - of - light that can extend far beyond the confines of their host galaxy.

The newly discovered «proto - cluster» of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old (12 percent of its present age), is one of the most massive structures known at that distance.

Galaxy clusters are commonly observed in the present - day universe and contain some of the oldest and most massive galaxies known.

Black holes that form due to the collapse of massive stars typically have masses 5 - 20 times that of the sun, but supermassive black holes — found in the centers of nearly all known sizeable galaxies — are far bigger, at about hundreds of thousands, or even billions, of solar masses.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Three billion years ago in a distant galaxy, two massive black holes slammed together, merged into one and sent space — time vibrations, known as gravitational waves, shooting out into the universe.

IRAS also discovered many previously unknown galaxies that emit most of their energy in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (these are known as ultraluminous infrared galaxies), apparently owing to a massive burst of star formation during the merger of two galaxies.

It is also the site of the densest concentration of massive stars known in the galaxy.