Sentences with phrase «of big galaxies»

Since big black holes tend to reside at the cores of big galaxies, the huge masses of these two compact galaxies» black holes — about 4 to 6 million times as massive as our sun — are the strongest indication that the dwarf galaxies are not traditional dwarfs and the black holes are not overweight.

It may have even provided the seeds for the supermassive black holes that seem to anchor all of the big galaxies.

Supermassive black holes have a mass of more than 1 million suns, and are thought to be at the center of all big galaxies.

«They are the first to provide compelling observational evidence for these objects being the remnants of bigger galaxies,» says Elena Gallo at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Not exact matches

A spiral galaxy (same goes for a spherical planet, a galaxy cluster, a comet) is shaped by forces big and small that rely on the physical properties of matter, energy, dark energy, and dark matter.

This «hole in space» is a 300 million light year gap in the distribution of galaxies, has taken cosmologists by surprise, not because it exists, but because it is so big.

Because this survey pertains to such a small piece of the sky, the implications are staggering: if the region of sky demarked by the «bowl» of the Big Dipper were surveyed to the same depth, it would contain about 32 million galaxies!»

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

All her arguments have already been made on the basis of Big Bang evidence (relation between the distance and speed of galaxies, nucleosynthesis, etc.).

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

The big bang theory is part of physics and cosmology, and only explains why the galaxies appear to all be moving away from the same central point.

The big bang has likely happened many times, just as there are multiple planets supporting life just in our arm of the galaxy.

Recently, an attempt has been made to tackle quantum gravity in the first moments after the Big Bang [cf New Scientist (online): «Galaxies could give a glimpse of the instant time began», 31 October 2012 by Stephen Battersby].

The simplified model of the Big Bang has the universe beginning with a «singularity», a sort of dot that contained the seeds of everything: electrons, atoms, galaxies, etc..

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

What I was merely doing is taking where we are at right now and actually expanding on that — supposition: it is possible that this collection of billions of galaxies may be part of billions of Big Bangs, which could be part of the «universe» which is part of billions of universes, which is part of a multiverse, which is part of billions of multiverses... on and on and on...

Earth is part of our solar system, our solar system is a very small neighborhood in a spiral arm of our galaxy, our galaxy is one of the smaller of the billions of galaxies that are the residue of the Big Bang - this is where we are at right now... using several different types of telescopes analyzing several types of radiation and using our mathematics to calculate distortions in light waves to calculate dimensions, distance and mass — doing this we can generate a physical picture of what is actually happening our there.

Once there was no universe and then, after the Big Bang, there was an exploding world of stars and galaxies.

Since this «Big Bang» galaxies, stars and planets have gradually congealed out of the gases released by that unique and momentous cosmic event.

The «Let there be light» easily could reference the Big Bang, then out of the void etc is the galaxies and planets forming.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

We've recently become vegan, and as someone with the biggest sweet tooth and a former whole bar of galaxy in a sitting kind of girl.

While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

And putting together a census of binary supermassive black holes from the early universe, he adds, might help researchers understand what role (if any) these dark duos had in shaping galaxies during the billion or so years following the Big Bang.

The gravity from all that mass redirects any light that tries to sneak past, bending and focusing it, creating bigger and brighter images of galaxies far beyond the cluster.

«Biggest ever simulations help uncover the history of the galaxy.»

A smooth - universe approximation is sensible, because when we look at the big picture, averaging over the structures of galaxy clusters and voids, the universe is remarkably uniform.

At the time, Schmidt thought he had a pretty good handle on the evolution of the cosmos: It began in a tiny fireball of energy — the Big Bang — and had expanded outward ever since, carrying galaxies and supernovae along for the ride.

Over the last few years, Hubble has given us views of infant galaxies as they were just 500 million years after the Big Bang, allowing cosmologists to see how quickly the raw materials from the newborn universe coalesced into stars and then galaxies and then clusters of galaxies.

One finalist, the Spectro - Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), will map galaxies across a large volume of the universe to find out what drove inflation, a pulse of impossibly fast expansion just after the big bang.

From there they built a convincing case that Sagittarius A * was in fact a black hole — the biggest one in the galaxy, with a mass 4.3 million times that of the sun and a diameter of about 25 million kilometers.

Many other potential applications of this dataset are explored in the series of papers, and they include studying the role of faint galaxies during cosmic reionisation (starting just 380,000 years after the Big Bang), galaxy merger rates when the Universe was young, galactic winds, star formation as well as mapping the motions of stars in the early Universe.

From exoplanet atmospheres to the dynamics of galaxies to the stretch marks left by the big bang, the three finalists in a $ 250 million astrophysics mission competition would tackle questions spanning all of space and time.

They found that the mass in the central bulge (regardless of how big the disk surrounding it may be) is the key to knowing the colour of the whole galaxy.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

They probed more deeply than ever before and revealed a menagerie of galaxies dating back to less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

This new finding fills in a long - missing piece in the puzzle representing our galaxy's chemical evolution, and is a big step forward for astronomers trying to understand the amounts of different chemical elements in stars in the Milky Way.

Following the big bang, if the expansion of space had overwhelmed the pull of gravity in the newborn universe, stars, galaxies and humans would never have formed

The subsequent sequence of events echoes the Big Bang model: Lumps of gas give rise to galaxies and other cosmic structures, and space continues to expand.

Computer modeling of the gravitational dynamics among galaxies in a cluster suggest that galaxies as big as our Milky Way are the likely candidates as the source of the stars.

It is one of the biggest in our galaxy, and may offer insight into how these objects can grow so big.

Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed

Each magnet must be kept at — 456 degrees Fahrenheit — colder than the void between galaxies — requiring CERN to build the world's biggest cryogenic system to handle the 185,000 gallons of liquid helium that will be used to chill the magnets.

Minchin views this dark galaxy not as an anomaly but as perhaps a crucially important piece of evidence confirming current theories about how orderly structures — including bright galaxies like our own — emerged from the formlessness of the Big Bang.

Along with the familiar cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the big bang — the distant universe is suffused with an infrared background, thought to come from galaxies and stars too faint and far away to see.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

About 500 million years after the Big Bang, one of the first galaxies in the universe formed, containing stars of about the same mass as the sun — which can live for 10 billion years — as well as lighter stars.

How could — due to a breaking of symmetry — matter, and thus stars and galaxies, be created from an originally symmetrical universe in which the same conditions prevailed everywhere shortly after the Big Bang?