Sentences with phrase «satellite galaxies around»

An illustration showing the distribution of the two dozen known dwarf satellite galaxies around the Milky Way.

A whirling plane of satellite galaxies around Centaurus A challenges cold dark matter cosmology.

Not exact matches

Because this scenario depends on the presence of nearby stars, we expect DCBHs to typically form in satellite galaxies that orbit around larger parent galaxies where Population III stars have already formed.

Astronomers sifted through a catalog containing measurements of hundreds of galaxies to find the speed and location of 16 satellites around Centaurus A.

The difficulty of studying the movements of dwarf satellites around their hosts varies according to the target galaxy group.

We thought satellite galaxies were usually in random orbits around larger ones, but a handful in coordinated orbits may force us to rethink galaxy formation

The galaxies were then divided into those that are central to their local environment (the center of gravity) and those that roam around in their host environments (satellites).

Around the Milky Way, the clouds are the brightest, and largest, examples of dwarf satellite galaxies.

At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - years.

Stuart Clark describes how a superfluid Bose - Einstein state of dark matter particles might explain the streams of dwarf satellite galaxies in polar orbit around the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies (2 April, p 30).

Recent advances in observational technique allow the detection of the extremely faint structure around galaxies, such as loops or debris that are likely made by dynamical interactions with satellite galaxies..

The sinking SMBH from the satellite galaxy would eventually create a disturbance in the rotating gas disk around the main galaxy's SMBH.

Along with the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way is one of the Group's most massive members, around which many smaller satellite galaxies orbit.

Dr. Masafumi Yagi, who leads the next phase of the project said, «We will discover more and more evidences of the satellite merger around Seyfert host galaxies.

In 2007, NASA's WMAP satellite, which measures the big bang's afterglow, picked up an excess of microwaves from around the centre of our galaxy.

Over the last decade, astronomers doing large photometric surveys (that is, measuring the light intensities of celestial objects) have found a number of new satellite galaxies, stellar streams, and over-densities around the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies.

Past attempts to find missing satellites around external galaxies at well - known distances have been unsuccessful because of the need for a very sensitive instrument capable of producing high - fidelity images, even in the vicinity of a bright source such as the Andromeda Galaxy.

Two super-Earths have been detected around Kapteyn's Star (an orphan star torn from an ancient dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way), one within its habitable zone (more).