Sentences with phrase «new galactic center»

However, the stars will be thrown into different orbits around the new galactic center.

Not exact matches

Both papers provide new, closely related estimates for the mass of the suspected black hole and the distance between our sun and the galactic center, roughly 26,000 light - years away.

The clouds are about twice as far from the center of the galaxy as our solar system is: Whereas the sun is located about 27,000 light - years from the galactic center the new clouds are 46,000 to 67,000 light - years out.

In 1968 astronomers aimed a new tool at the galactic center: the infrared detector, capable of picking up the faint heat thrown off by even lukewarm matter.

«The search for nearby fast radio bursts offers an opportunity for citizen scientists to help astronomers find and study one of the newest species in the galactic zoo,» says theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Using publicly available data from NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, independent scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark mCenter for Astrophysics (CfA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Chicago have developed new maps showing that the galactic center produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark mcenter produces more high - energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources and that this excess emission is consistent with some forms of dark matter.

«What I see in the control regions looks just like what I see in the galactic center,» says astrophysicist Andrea Albert of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, one of the researchers who worked on the analysis.