Sentences with phrase «of dwarf galaxies»

He said the latest finding challenged a long - held theory among cosmologists and theoreticians that there were thousands of dwarf galaxies in all directions around these large galaxies like bees swarming around a hive.

Hunting for merging dwarf galaxies in various environments, Paudel and Sengupta found UGC 4703, an interacting pair of dwarf galaxies that are located near the isolated spiral galaxy NGC 2718.

The outskirts of our Galaxy contain various stellar streams that are believed to be the remnants of dwarf galaxies that were torn to shreds by the strong tidal force of the Milky Way.»

If we could find other systems that look like the LMC — SMC — Milky - Way system, we might be able to learn more about pairs of dwarf galaxies and how they interact near the halos of large galaxies like the Milky Way.

This is not a complete list - many of the dwarf galaxies in this region of the sky have never been properly studied.

Were they more recently captured as an already - merging pair of dwarf galaxies?

The discovery of these dwarf galaxies, the first in nearly a decade, could provide much needed data to test current theories on the origin and nature of dark matter — the elusive force that holds galaxies together.

Magellanic clouds A pair of dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way.

Deep in space, two bridges made of stars link a pair of dwarf galaxies known as the Magellanic Clouds.

Then, beyond the Milky Way, there are a bunch of dwarf galaxies that are galactic satellites of the Milky Way (Cannis Major, Sagittarius), but the nearest full - size galaxy is Andromeda, which is two million light years away.

There have been similar claims for an extensive plane of dwarf galaxies about our own Milky Way Galaxy, with some claiming that the existence of such strange structures points to a failing in our understanding of the fundamental nature of the Universe.

Not only could dark atoms explain the lack of dwarf galaxies, it's just possible, say their inventors, that they could also explain the discrepancies between the dark matter experiments.

What's promising about dark atoms is that they could explain the lack of dwarf galaxies in our observations.

Observations of dwarf galaxies are prompting a growing number of astronomers to change their minds about what properties they want dark matter to have.

Researchers think these stellar ribbons and arcs are the stretched - out remnants of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters that got too close to the Milky Way and were dissolved by its powerful gravity (Science, 3 January, p. 62).

She says uncertainty in these new measurements means the orbits of these dwarf galaxies may not be as nicely aligned as they seem.

Elena D'Onghia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, had predicted in 2009 that unless gravity is doing something very strange, we should see clusters of dwarf galaxies all on their own, even near our galaxy.

That sad tale fits with previous observations of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way and having their matter stripped away.

But supernovas can blow material out of the dwarf galaxies» inner regions.

A few years ago, Frebel realized that some of the dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way might be especially rich sources of ancient stars.

Those remnants, which McConnachie calls «the partially digested remains of these dwarf galaxies,» take the form of large, diffuse streams of stars, former galactic groupings that have been pulled apart by the larger galaxy's gravitational pull.

«Everywhere we looked we saw this strangely coherent coordinated motion of dwarf galaxies.

«Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink.»

An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600 - 900 million years after the Big Bang [1]-- one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs.

«Early in 2013 we announced our startling discovery that half of the dwarf galaxies surrounding the Andromeda Galaxy are orbiting it in an immense plane» said Professor Lewis.

Two of them — a more extensive survey of luminous galaxies, intended to tease out more information about galaxy clustering on large scales, and a more sensitive search for the cannibalized remnants of dwarf galaxies — will extend recent findings from the second Sloan survey.

Some observations of mass in dim galaxies and the motions of dwarf galaxies agree better with MOND than with Newtonian physics, a mystery that convinced Stacy McGaugh at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, that it could be the way to go.

There is really no inconsistency between the planar structure of dwarf galaxies and the current cosmological paradigm.»

The study, «Is the Vast Polar Structure of Dwarf Galaxies a Serious Problem for CDM?»

On smaller scales, however, the simulations show that around every large spiral galaxy, dark matter clumps should sculpt thousands of dwarf galaxies.

Our results thus reconcile our understanding of dark matter's role in the universe with observations of dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's neighborhood.»

One of the biggest mysteries of dwarf galaxies has to do with dark matter, which is why scientists are so fascinated by them.

Astronomers have developed a number of theories for why we haven't found more, but none of them could account for both the paucity of dwarf galaxies and their properties, including their mass, size, and density.

The last remnants of a dwarf galaxy circle the spiral galaxy that tore it apart.

Fourteen of the dwarf galaxy candidates found in DES data are visible in this particular image.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Chakrabarti first came up with the idea of a dwarf galaxy hit - and - run in 2009 as a way to explain the puzzling galactic ripples.

The object, dubbed SDSS1133, lies about 2600 light - years from the center of a dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 177 (both of which lie within the bowl of the Big Dipper, a familiar star pattern in the constellation Ursa Major).

The stars of dwarf galaxy Segue 1 (circled in green) are a boon to stellar archaeologists because they're all extremely old second - generation stars.

The cloud is made mostly of hydrogen gas and is 11,000 light years long and 2500 light years wide, about the size of a dwarf galaxy.

Astronomers have found the first evidence of a dwarf galaxy smash - up about to happen — a finding that lends weight to two cosmological theories.

The mystery object is part of the dwarf galaxy Markarian 177, located in the bowl of the Big Dipper, a well - known star pattern within the constellation Ursa Major.

It is believed that the Omega Centauri is the remaining core of a dwarf galaxy that merged with our own galaxy billions of years ago, bringing Kapteyn's star along.

While UDGs were originally identified in the cluster environment, several theoretical models suggest that UDGs are a subset of the dwarf galaxy population and should also be found in isolation.

It has been speculated that Omega Centauri may be the core of a dwarf galaxy that was disrupted and absorbed by the Milky Way.

The path of the dwarf galaxy through space is shown by a green curve.

It also lies in roughly the same position as the globular cluster M54 but whether this globular cluster is actually part of the dwarf galaxy is unclear.

«Most of the dwarf galaxy candidates that my colleagues and I observed around Centaurus A are arranged this way, and it's a similar case with at least half of them around Andromeda.»

Because of the extreme intrinsic luminosity of M54 in comparison to the other globular clusters associated with SagDEG, it has been speculated early that M54 may be the nucleus of this dwarf galaxy, or the remnant of its nucleus (Bassino and Muzzio, 1995).

Not exact matches

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy, the more petite twin of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).