Sentences with phrase «nearby universe»

Remarkably, the distribution of star - forming galaxies around a cluster of galaxies in the more distant universe (5 billion years ago) corresponds much more closely with the weak lensing map than a slice of the more nearby universe (3 billion years ago).

The researchers were able to demonstrate that 14 of the 16 Centaurus A satellite galaxies follow a common motion pattern and rotate along the plane around the main galaxy — contradicting frequently used cosmological models and simulations suggesting that only about 0.5 percent of satellite galaxy systems in the nearby universe should exhibit this pattern.

«We can use this portrait not only to predict the properties of the nearby universe, but can also use it to understand the first moments of the big bang.»

But inventories of the stars and gas in the nearby universe have revealed only about half the matter that is predicted by cosmological models.

His work was very mathematical and computer - intensive, two of my strengths at the time, and we made a lot of progress on a small project about galaxy motions in the nearby universe.

«The result heralds a new window to the nearby universe and the beginning of cosmic - ray astronomy.»

A LITTLE over 25,000 light years away lies the most mysterious place in the nearby universe.

Looking at them as a whole, we're gleaning that they're typically oval - shaped and span 50 million to 150 million light - years in the modern, nearby universe.

«It's the first clear experimental indication that the sources of these high - energy particles are located outside of our own galaxy, probably somewhere in the nearby universe,» says Karl - Heinz Kampert of the University of Wuppertal in Germany, a spokesperson for the Pierre Auger Collaboration, which made the discovery.

An illustration of the distribution of dark matter in the nearby universe (brighter spots mean higher concentrations) makes clear how much empty space lies between the massive, galaxy - lined filaments.

A strange green blob in the nearby universe may be a «light echo» from a long - dead quasar — an extremely bright object powered by a colossal black hole.

Hence, it is one of the most - studied starburst galaxies in the nearby universe within 500 million light - years of the Sun.

By comparison, the study by Tremblay and his colleagues looked at only elliptical galaxies in the nearby universe with fireworks at their centers.

BOSTON — Astronomers have produced the most complete 3D map of the nearby universe to date.

Djorgovski, who also presented his results at the Seattle meeting, suspects that M87 — by far the largest and most massive galaxy in the nearby universe — may be the result of successive mergers of about a hundred smaller galactic building blocks.

If a nearby universe had somehow interacted with our universe before that time, it might have left its imprint on the CMB for us to discover almost 15 billion years later.

48 Nearby Universe Mapped Astrophysicists have produced the most detailed full - sky map of the nearby universe...

The existence of such active galaxies in the nearby universe was first noted by the American astronomer Carl Seyfert more than 70 years ago.

Once they knew what to look for, the team figured out how often this should be seen in the nearby universe, if the hard - surface theory is true.

Although Spitzer primarily looks at the nearby universe, its ultracold detectors were sensitive enough to spot the galaxy's faint heat.

«Given the rate of stars falling onto black holes and the number density of black holes in the nearby universe, we calculated how many such transients Pan-STARRS should have detected over a period of operation of 3.5 years.

The researchers note that galaxies of this earlier era are messier than the ones we see in the nearby universe.

The discovery of these phenomena in the nearby universe has significant impacts on our understanding of how supermassive black holes are formed and how matter rapidly falls onto them.

After two decades of research on three continents, astrophysicists have produced the largest and most detailed full - sky map of the nearby universe.

The standard cosmological model is the frame of reference for many generations of scientists, some of whom are beginning to question its ability to accurately reproduce what is observed in the nearby universe.

«This is a beginning of a new stage in our study of the early universe,» said WMAP team member Prof. David N. Spergel of Princeton University, N.J. «We can use this portrait not only to predict the properties of the nearby universe, but can also use it to understand the first moments of the big bang,» he said.

Tully was recently named as one of four recipients of the 2014 Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize for his role in understanding the structure and evolution of the nearby universe.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult.

«Although the galaxy is not as youthful as was once believed, it is certainly developmentally challenged and unique in the nearby universe,» said astronomer Alessandra Aloisi from the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency in Baltimore, Md., who led the new study.

He leads the Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) collaboration, which aims to improve understanding of stars, clusters, and galaxies in the nearby universe through measurement of their proper motions.

This plot shows over one and a half million of the brightest stars and galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in infrared light.

NGC 5128 is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and one of the strangest looking galaxies in the nearby universe.

FREBEL: Pinpointing the location of neutron star mergers might become possible for events in the nearby universe.