Sentences with phrase «radio lobes»
The size of these radio lobes dwarfs the large galaxy.
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Spiral galaxies are often thought to not be «mature» or massive enough to host giant radio lobes.
The radio lobes are produced from electrons shot out from the nucleus in narrow beams called jets.
Gas escaping along the magnetic field would produce the beams of electrons and gas seen in the jets to make the radio lobes of radio galaxies.
The radio emission comes from the core AND from very large regions on either side of the optical part of the galaxy called «radio lobes».
Not exact matches
The six - legged biomechanical hybrid can rise, hover, and fly on command, guided by a radio receiver that relays signals to electrodes connected to the insect's optic lobes and flight muscles.
Merging X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with microwave (orange) and visible images reveals the jets and radio - emitting lobes emanating from Centaurus A's central black hole.
In addition, «lobes» of bright radio emission were pushed outward by the jets at about half the speed of light.
The main science targets specific to these Hubble observations are the host galaxies of Green Double Radio - lobed Active Galactic Nuclei (Green DRAGN — pronounced Green Dragon) and Spiral Double Radio - lobed Active Galactic Nuclei (S - DRAGN).
These morphological differences between radio and X-rays suggest that the relativistic electrons are distributed homogeneously over the lobe volume, whereas the magnetic field is amplified toward the lobe rim region.
Abstract: A follow - up X-ray study was made of the west lobe of the radio galaxy Fornax A, (NGC 1316) based on new ASCA observations made in 1997 for 98 ks, and incorporating the previous observation in 1994 for 39 ks.
The «active» part of the galaxy is the supermassive black hole in its core, which spews out strong jets of energetic particles that produce enormous lobes of radio emission.
Found to be the closest «radio - loud» galaxy to the Solar System (José Luis Sérsic, 1960), its radio emissions comes from two giant lobes that extend over a million light - years (ly), roughly at right angles to the galaxy's dark dust band.