Sentences with phrase «massive than the black hole»

They found that galaxies in the early universe were 30 times more massive than their black holes, whereas present - day galaxies are 1,000 times heavier.

Scientists identified the chirp source as objects much less massive than the black holes seen to date.

Astronomers discovered a «ultramassive» black hole that is 10,000 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our galaxy

Not exact matches

And this new wave that scientists detected was even harder to pick up than the first wave because the black holes were much less massive.

«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.

Both groups of astronomers studied a particular quasar called APM 08279 +5255, which harbors a black hole 20 billion times more massive than the sun and produces as much energy as a thousand trillion suns.

Population III stars were probably more massive than stars born in the later universe, which means they could have left behind black holes as hefty as several hundred solar masses.

Alternative explanations posit these anomalously massive black holes grew and merged in throngs of stars called globular clusters, but that process can easily require more time than the current age of the universe.

Astronomers previously thought that this type of «ultraluminous X-ray source» was likely to be made up of black holes five to 50 times more massive than our sun, radiating energy as they pull in nearby matter.

Most black holes are thought to form when very massive stars — those with more than about 10 times the mass of sun — exhaust their nuclear fuel and begin to cool and therefore contract.

Brown dwarfs, less massive than stars, are nearly dark, as are collapsed stars — white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.

All the previous gravitational - wave detections since the first in September 2015 had been the result of two merging black holes — objects much more massive than a neutron star — which have left only gravitational waves as fleeting clues of their merger.

«It is very significant that these black holes were much less massive than those observed in the first detection,» said Gabriela Gonzalez, LSC spokesperson and professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.

At its very heart, we suspect, lurks a monstrous black hole more than 4 million times as massive as the sun.

The white blob at the center contains a massive black hole surrounded by infalling material, which, oddly, is not much brighter than some of the stars around it.

If it was more than 25 times as massive, the remnant is an even smaller and more bizarre black hole.

The discovery of the magnetar's former companion elsewhere in the cluster helps solve the mystery of how a star that started off so massive could become a magnetar, rather than collapse into a black hole.

The resilience of the dusty cloud to the extreme gravitational tidal effects so close to the black hole strongly suggest that it surrounds a dense object with a massive core, rather than being a free - floating cloud.

The existence of black holes tens of times more massive than our Sun was confirmed recently by the observation of gravitational waves, produced by the merger of pairs of massive black holes, with the LIGO interferometer.

His passing came less than 18 months after LIGO physicists spotted gravitational waves — ripples in space itself — set off when two massive black holes spiraled into each other.

«It's about 2,000 times more massive than the Milky Way's black hole, but it's also about 2,000 times farther away, so the angular size is the same,» making it another ideal target for the EHT.

In a 2008 study, Haiman and his colleagues hypothesized that radiation from a massive neighboring galaxy could split molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen and cause the nascent black hole and its host galaxy to collapse rather than spawn new clusters of stars.

The current model of active galaxies such as M87 posits that each one harbors at its center a black hole many millions or even billions of times more massive than our own sun, all packed into a space about the size of our solar system.

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.

The black hole at its heart is more than a hundred times as massive as ours.

Two teams of astronomers led by researchers at the University of Cambridge have looked back nearly 13 billion years, when the Universe was less than 10 percent its present age, to determine how quasars — extremely luminous objects powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns — regulate the formation of stars and the build - up of the most massive galaxies.

Supermassive black holes, which can be hundreds of thousands to billions of times more massive than the sun, may be found at the center of most galaxies.

However, some astrophysicists believe that there may be compact massive objects that fall very slightly short of black hole status; their range is only a little larger than the Schwarzschild radius.

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).

Massive black holes should not have existed in a universe less than one billion years old, yet they did

There are two different black hole scenarios proposed to explain these objects: (1) they contain very «big» black holes that could be more than a thousand times more massive than the Sun (Note 1), or (2) they are relatively small black holes, «little monsters» with masses no more than a hundred times that of the Sun, that shine at luminosities exceeding theoretical limits for standard accretion (called «supercritical (or super-Eddington) accretion,» Note 2).

The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is far less massive than previously thought, claims an astronomer in the US.

We think that massive black holes existed when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Those gravity waves came from two black holes more massive than any known outside a galactic core and formed in an environment different than the Milky Way.

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.

As a star much more massive than the sun contracts to the size of an asteroid — or even smaller if it becomes a black hole — it creates unimaginable densities, temperatures, and energy.

Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.

If all such compact dwarf galaxies are stripped, she argues, then their black holes may also be unexpectedly massive — meaning these behemoths are much more abundant in the universe than previously thought.

«Why super massive black holes consume less material than expected.»

Comparison with the SXS simulations revealed that the signal was from the collision of two hefty black holes 29 and 36 times more massive than the sun and located 1.3 billion light - years from Earth.

A black hole is an object that is so massive, yet so small, that a velocity greater than the speed of light is needed to escape from its gravitational pull.

The discovery was made as part of a program to detect supermassive black holes, millions or billions of times more massive than the Sun, that are not at the centers of galaxies.

The team, conducting a fairly routine hunt for ancient, massive black holes, was surprised to find one with a mass of more than 7 billion times our Sun making it among the most massive black holes ever discovered.

«[A massive black hole, 21,000,000 times more massive than the Sun, lies at the center of a small galaxy.]

While the jets from galaxy cores are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes millions of times more massive than the Sun, the closer «microquasars» are powered by much smaller black holes or by neutron stars only a few times more massive than the sun.

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

The accretion disks became depleted, and the resulting black holes were fast - spinning and more massive than ever.

LISA is tuned to detect lower frequencies and longer wavelengths produced by mergers between black holes millions of times more massive than the sun.

The black hole observed by NuSTAR, called Markarian 335 (Mrk 335), is 10 million times more massive than the sun and lies 324 million light - years away, researchers said.