Sentences with phrase «probably radio galaxies»
A third type of active galaxy called BL Lacertae objects (BL Lac objects for short) are probably radio galaxies with their jets pointed right at us.
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A report published online by Science on 2 August suggests that cross-shaped radio galaxies harbor massive black holes that suddenly flipped their spins, probably by absorbing black holes from other galaxies.
Although it is close to the line of sight to the globular cluster M15, most astronomers had thought that this source of bright radio waves was probably a distant galaxy.
Lead author Dr. Danail Obreschkow, from The University of Western Australia (UWA) node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said that ten billion years ago the Universe was full of clumpy galaxies, but these developed into more regular objects as they evolved; the majority of stars in the sky today, including our five billion - year - old Sun, were probably born inside these clumpy galaxies.
Observations with radio and infra - red telescopes show that NGC 5128 swallowed a spiral galaxy probably about five hundred million years ago and the effects of the collision powers the strong radio emission.