Sentences with phrase «of giant galaxies»

«emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

A few «emit as much light and energy as thousands of giant galaxies concentrated in a region as tiny as the solar system.»

Astronomers have identified powerful radio - emitting galaxies that existed when the universe was only one tenth its present age These objects offer a glimpse at the early evolution of giant galaxies

Stellar motions in the core of the giant galaxy do indeed suggest that it may have experienced a black hole merger in the not - too - distant past, says Gebhardt.

Very large yet faint galaxies have been found where no one would have expected them — in the middle of a giant galaxy cluster.

But Fox suspects that other giant spirals also get replenished when gas - rich satellites fall toward them; we just happen to live in one of the few galaxies where this process is occurring today, giving astronomers a ringside seat on the refueling of a giant galaxy.

«We were surprised to find that a large proportion of pairs of satellite galaxies have oppositely directed velocities if they are situated on opposite sides of their giant galaxy hosts,» said lead author Neil Ibata of the Lycée International in Strasbourg, France.

This image made from data obtained with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas - rich galaxies (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)-RRB-

Now an international team of researchers from eight different countries has made ultra-high angular resolution images of the black hole jet at the centre of the giant galaxy NGC 1275, also known as radio source Perseus A or 3C 84.

Not exact matches

Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (the universe itself is 14.8 billion years old), that clump together due to gravity, and are found circling cores of galaxies.

What it's about: In a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker gets tangled up with a Jedi knight, pilot Han Solo, a giant bear thing called a wookiee, and two droids — all in order to save the galaxy and rescue Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader.

Pursuing these convictions down the centuries, Jews and Christians expected that the Creator had paid loving attention to every detail of the inner life of the molecule, and to the giant, bursting stars of distant galaxies.

There's no difference if there was a super giant star in the centre of the galaxy gravitationally speaking, a black hole's gravitational pull is proportional to its mass, which is estimated at around 4 million solar masses.

Robot lions which could combine into a giant robot dude to fight space monster - robots in a galaxy run by an evil empire of purple guys.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Giant lenses in space are at the forefront of efforts to explore the origins of galaxies.

A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.

RIGHT ROUND Dwarf galaxies near the giant galaxy Centaurus A, shown here in a composite of images from three different telescopes, seem to orbit it in an unexpectedly organized loop.

Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.

When observing a distant galaxy, for example, massive objects between Earth and the galaxy act like a giant lens and bend the galaxy's light, creating multiple images of the single galaxy.

Today, astronomers know that virtually every galaxy harbors a giant black hole at its center, shaping the formation of millions of stars and even neighboring galaxies with its immense gravitational influence.

Earlier research with NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory revealed that the jets from this AGN are carving out a pair of giant «radio bubbles,» huge cavities in the hot, diffuse plasma that surrounds the galaxy.

The Galactic Cushion The Hubble Space Telescope recently beamed back pictures of 29 dwarf galaxies in the Perseus Cluster that, by all appearances, should have been torn to shreds by the gravitational tidal forces of their giant neighbors.

Born in red giant stars or supernovas, they drift through the galaxy and eventually mingle with interstellar clouds of gas and dust, the places where new stars and planets arise.

All previous cases of light deflection have involved more massive objects, ranging from Jupiter, whose mass is about 1 / 1000th that of the Sun, to giant galaxies, which have roughly 1013 times the Sun's mass.

In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.

To find out how numerous dark galaxies really are, he will soon scan large areas of the sky using the giant 1,000 - foot radio telescope at Arecibo.

The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas exploding in rapid succession as each generation of giant stars dies out.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

To measure the size of these ancient giant waves to such sharp precision, BOSS had to make an unprecedented and ambitious galaxy map, many times larger than previous surveys.

It also lends weight to the popular theory that a quasar is born in the collision of two giant galaxies, similar to the Milky Way.

When a giant star explodes as a supernova, it can outshine its own galaxy as it dishes out heat, X-rays, and the highest - energy radiation of all, gamma rays.

Our corner of the cosmos, known as the Local Group, includes two giant spiral galaxies — the Milky Way and Andromeda — and smaller satellite galaxies orbiting them.

«Earliest giant galaxies: The birth of monsters.»

GALACTIC QUARTET The way invisible dark matter warped the light from distant galaxies, shown here as the swirl of material surrounding four giant galaxies in cluster Abell 3827 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photograph), suggested that dark matter can separate from stars when galaxies collide.

Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million stars up to giants with one trillion stars, all orbiting a common center of mass.

Their map, which covers 100 times as much sky as previous surveys, reveals giant heaps of dark matter enveloping galaxies.

This should allow users to calculate distances to some of the Universe's most remote objects, such as quasars, the luminous cores of distant galaxies containing giant black holes.

It is what holds together giant clusters of galaxies, but it is also what I experience every time I sit down in a chair or take a step.

«When the sun pokes up above the galaxy's plane on the north side,» he says, «the entire planet gets a giant dose of cosmic rays.»

Most curiously, each giant black hole appears to contain exactly 0.2 % of the mass of its galaxy's bulge of stars.

Astronomer Karl Gebhardt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an international team used the Hubble Space Telescope to chart the orbital motions of stars within galaxies containing giant black holes, including eight newly identified ones.

The physicist's theory of general relativity, which celebrates its centenary this year, is responsible for putting a giant cosmic ring on a galaxy hidden at the centre of this image.

General relativity also is the bedrock of gravitational lensing, which uses the gravity of stars and galaxies as a giant magnifying glass to zoom in on farther cosmic objects.

But the new discoveries include almost every kind of galaxy, from shapeless dwarfs to disc - like giants three times the size of our Galaxy.

In the spectrum, the team found evidence of a large concentration of neutral hydrogen clouds close to the galaxy, indicating the presence of a giant cluster of embryonic galaxies.

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.

The positrons may be jetting from superhot gas falling into a giant black hole believed to inhabit the center of our galaxy.

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

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.