Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxies»

The answer lies in its density, and according to a group of American astronomers the distortion of light by the gravity of nearby galaxy clusters may provide a way to measure it.

Most direct estimates of the constant are, in fact, based on observations of relatively nearby galaxies.

However, until now, radio telescopes have only been able to detect the emission signature of hydrogen from relatively nearby galaxies.

«The difference tells us that this galaxy has a large - scale, coherent magnetic field, similar to those we see in nearby galaxies in the present - day universe,» Mao said.

Their quasar activity has been attributed to encounters with nearby galaxies — encounters that disrupt material and provide new «fuel» to the black hole.

The scientists from the USA, Australia, and Europe used the powerful DEIMOS spectrograph installed on the world's largest optical telescope at Keck Observatory to conduct a major survey of nearby galaxies called SLUGGS, which mapped out the speeds of their stars.

«I think this is the craziest thing because before we could only see singular stars from nearby galaxies like Andromeda or Milky Way,» said Patrick Kelly, a University astrophysics professor who led the international team of scientists.

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

With clouds shrouding much of the sky, professor Steve Fossey decided to point the University's 14 - inch telescope at nearby galaxy Messier 82 (M82) and saw a very bright object that wasn't supposed to be there.

The astronomers believe that AzTEC - 3 and the other nearby galaxies appear to be part of the same system, but are not yet gravitationally bound into a clearly defined cluster.

Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image molecules in nearby galaxies at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.

The most sensitive imaging yet of nearby galaxy M87's core reveals that the black hole residing there has either a nonexistent or much fainter ring of dust around it compared with its peers.

Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.

Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.

Now Andrew Gould and Jens Villumsen of Ohio State University in Columbus argue that the gravity of nearby galaxy clusters should distort the light from distant galaxies in a way that depends on W.

A Carnegie - based search of nearby galaxies for their oldest stars has uncovered two stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy that were born shortly after the galaxy formed, approximately 13 billion years ago.

Yan, also the survey scientist for the survey called Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA), was working with the international team, including lead author Edmond Cheung of the University of Tokyo, to study hundreds of galaxies when they caught a supermassive black hole blasting away at the cold gas in its host galaxy.

In the past few years, the orbiting Swift x-ray observatory has found dozens of these extraordinarily bright black holes — or AGN — in nearby galaxies by detecting the high - energy x-rays they emit.

Among its goals is to find the descendants of luminous quasars that may be sleeping unsuspected in large nearby galaxies.

Further observations showed that the voorwerp was a glowing cloud of gas that stretched some 100,000 light - years from the core of a massive nearby galaxy called IC 2497.

Such interactions between nearby galaxies, which may ultimately result in galaxies merging, may induce episodes of significantly increased star formation, producing what is called a starburst galaxy.

The team cataloged nearby galaxies that may host pairs of supermassive black holes.

In contrast with these distant galaxies, stars orbiting on the outskirts of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies move too fast for their velocities to result only from the gravity of gas and stars closer to the galactic center.

The goal of the catalogue was to image examples of the weird and wonderful structures found among nearby galaxies, to provide snapshots of different stages of galactic evolution.

Brent Tully at the University of Hawaii's Institute of Astronomy has used nearby galaxies» motions to survey the repulsive effect of the Local Void, which he co-discovered.

Schmidt and his colleagues point out that they measure a distant galaxy's distance directly, without the intermediate steps involving nearby galaxies.

A decade later, observations of nearby galaxies revealed that the universe is far from static, but has expanded furiously since its birth in an infinitely hot, dense fireball billions of years ago: the big bang.

«Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes: Modeling supports one view of massive black - hole creation in early universe.»

When the giant elliptical gets large enough, it can gobble up nearby galaxies whole.

About 10 billion years later in our modern universe, a census of the baryons present in stars and gas in Milky Way and nearby galaxies suggests that at least half the baryons are unaccounted for.

«Theoretical studies predict that this process of galactic growth continues today, but astronomers have been unable to detect the expected low mass «building blocks» falling into nearby galaxies, until now.»

Another result from the study is that the jet structure in NGC 1275 significantly differs from the jet in the very nearby galaxy Messier 87, which is the only other jet whose structure has been imaged equally close to the black hole.

On that «super» day, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASASSN) reported a supernova in the same nearby galaxy Kepler was monitoring.

Also, the light from a distant galaxy would have reached Earth not too long after the light from nearby galaxies.

Unlike most supernovae surveys, which look for bright bursts of light, Kochanek would monitor about 30 nearby galaxies for curious patches of darkness where a star had suddenly disappeared.

Modern astronomers have yet to see one in our Milky Way but have managed to witness a few dozen in nearby galaxies with known progenitor stars.

A new simulation of the orbits of stars after galaxy collisions concludes that invisible cocoons of matter do indeed exist around large nearby galaxies.

Such hot spots ought to dissipate relatively quickly due to gravitational meddling from massive nearby galaxies, which should rob them of energy and cool them.

Wright's and Vayner's research indicates that 3C 298 does not fall within this normal scaling relationship between nearby galaxies and the supermassive black holes that lurk at their center.

Until recently, though, Cepheids had been spotted only in relatively nearby galaxies that are influenced by the gravitational pull of our Milky Way.

Kaaret plans to study Tol 1247 - 232 more closely and find other nearby galaxies that are leaking ultraviolet light, which would help corroborate his theory.

Right now, the Milky Way galaxy is locked in a gravitational dance with a nearby galaxy called Andromeda.

M51 is interacting with a nearby galaxy (off screen here) and that gravitational barn dance may be what's smoothing out the dust here.

Such was the case in May 2010 when an amateur South African astronomer pointed his telescope toward NGC300, a nearby galaxy.

«Caught in the act: Astronomers find a rare supernova «impostor» in a nearby galaxy.»

Since it was first discovered in 1992, the curious shape of the Honeycomb Nebula, which lurks in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, has been a puzzle.