Sentences with phrase «of giant elliptical galaxies»

Now researchers think they've identified a sprouting seed of a giant elliptical galaxy, churning out new stars just 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

Another target is the supermassive black hole in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy in M87.

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of a 4,000 light - year long jet of plasma emanating from the bright nucleus of the giant elliptical galaxy M87.

Not exact matches

This is the first direct observational evidence that at least some of the earliest so - called «dead» galaxies — where star formation stopped — somehow evolve from a Milky Way - shaped disk into the giant elliptical galaxies we see today.

«Giant galaxies die from the inside out: Star formation shuts down in the centers of elliptical galaxies first.»

«Red and dead» is the unflattering label astronomers attach to giant elliptical galaxies full of aged stars.

The third possibility is that the cold gas fueling the chain of star formation originates from a high - temperature shock wave created when the two giant elliptical galaxies crash together.

Some ellipticals are present in the central part of the cluster including a giant elliptical at the center (M87) that has become so large by gobbling up nearby galaxies that were attracted by its enormous gravity.

The giant ellipticals (called «cD galaxies») found close to the centers of galaxies were formed from the collision and merging of galaxies.

«Our fluffy objects add to the great diversity of galaxies that were previously known, from giant ellipticals that outshine the Milky Way, to ultra compact dwarfs,» said University of California, Santa Cruz Professor Jean Brodie.

His first original discovery of a galaxy, M49, a giant elliptical member of the Virgo Cluster, occurred in 1771.

Giant jets of subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light have been found coming from thousands of galaxies across the Universe, but always from elliptical galaxies or galaxies in the process of merging — until now.

I don't see how we can say the Milky Way galaxy will remain «as is» for 800 billlion years when it is going to merge with Andromeda and form a giant elliptical galaxy in a mere couple of billion years?

The quasar's element ratios are consistent with chemical evolution models suggesting the fast formation of high - mass stars within around half a billion years previously, similar to the nitrogen - rich environment of today's «Giant Elliptical» galaxies (Pentericci et al, 2002).

Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316.

The research team led by Satoru Iguchi, Associate Professor of NAOJ, succeeded in observing a very close binary black hole in the center of 3C66B (a giant elliptical galaxy within the cluster A347) just before its black hole merger.

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the center of giant Virgo Cluster elliptical galaxy M60.

Detection of the spiral's dust in a bi-symmetric structure provides strong evidence of its position deep inside the giant elliptical host while the vast amounts of radio, visual, and x-ray emissions are a result of the energy released by this continuing galactic merger (or «consumption» of a satellite galaxy).

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Astronomers (who uncovered the infrared image of the embedded spiral using the ISO satellite) believe that the giant elliptical's gravity has helped the consumed, barred spiral galaxy to maintain its shape thus far.

Some of the dust inside Centaurus A maps out what appears to be a barred spiral galaxy, which has recently merged with its giant elliptical host and is feeding gas into the host's central hole to produce bi-polar jets that are bright in radio wavelengths (more from APOD and ESA).