Sentences with phrase «pair of supermassive black holes»
«We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger,» said James Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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It will also pick up lower frequency waves, showing us a different set of objects, such as pairs of supermassive black holes.
Nanohertz gravitational waves are emitted from pairs of supermassive black holes orbiting each other, each of which contain millions or a billion times more mass than those detected by LIGO.
The team cataloged nearby galaxies that may host pairs of supermassive black holes.
The VLBA finds the closest pair of supermassive black holes yet found, orbiting each other at the core of a distant galaxy.
«We were looking for orbiting pairs of supermassive black holes, with one offset from the center of a galaxy, as telltale evidence of a previous galaxy merger.
Astronomers may have been seeing double when they recently announced the discovery of a pair of supermassive black holes at the heart of a galaxy collision.
Galaxies of similar size to the Sombrero Galaxy may offer astronomers their first glimpse of a pair of supermassive black holes merging.
Based on finding two cores in the galaxy, instead of one, Taylor and his collaborators concluded in 2006 that it contained a pair of supermassive black holes.
Using the supersharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light - years from Earth.
Artist's conception of the pair of supermassive black holes at the center of the galaxy 0402 +379, 750 million light - years from Earth.
VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402 +379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified as a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around each other.
Using the supersharp radio «vision» of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array, astronomers have made the first detection of orbital motion in a pair of supermassive black holes in a galaxy some 750 million light - years from Earth.