Sentences with phrase «smallest known galaxy»

Three years ago, a University of Utah - led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest known galaxy to harbor such a giant black hole.

Segue 2, the smallest known galaxy, is just one of many similar diminutive galaxies astronomers expect to find around the Milky Way, as shown in this colorful simulation.

«We originally wanted to study the effects of tidal forces on small known galaxies and any attending structural disruptions.

Not exact matches

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.

But there are plenty of smaller clusters and long rivers of galaxies, known as galaxy filaments, that fiddle with the light and create weak lenses.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.

Scientists still don't know how such galaxies might have formed or how their small populations of stars

Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.

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.

Pacing out their slow circuits over a billion years or more, 26 small galaxies are known to orbit the Milky Way.

The X-ray source containing this force - fed black hole, known by its abbreviated name of XJ1500 +0154, is located in a small galaxy about 1.8 billion light years from Earth.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs): a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

The Milky Way Has a Posse Astronomers have known since the 1920s that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by smaller collections of stars, essentially dwarf galaxies.

While this model fits most galaxies, it also predicts many more small galaxies than are known.

Compact elliptical galaxies form a rare class of stellar system (~ 30 presently known) characterized by high stellar densities and small sizes and often harboring metal - rich stars.

Cappellari doesn't know why those galaxies churned out so many small stars.

The hundreds of distant worlds, some large and some small, that are known to dot the galaxy provide plenty of intrigue for the scientists who hunt them.

Although smaller than the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud boasts something our own galaxy can't match: Its greatest star - forming region, named 30 Doradus, spans 700 light - years — 28 times the size of the Orion Nebula, the best - known stellar nursery in the Milky Way.

Kepler's observations have shown that small, rocky worlds like our own are abundant in the galaxy, and some of them may be capable of hosting life as we know it.

THE smallest galaxy known has been found cowering near the outskirts of the Milky Way.

A galaxy, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to elements heavier than iron, which are released by supernovae.

To make a clear distinction between galaxies and globular clusters, astronomers decided that true galaxies, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to heavy elements.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts: a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

We know that such objects need to have a low - density environment without other large galaxies nearby that would disturb it, but they also need a supply of small but gas - rich «dwarf» galaxies to accrete and build the really large diffuse extended disk.

Since low - mass stars like GJ 1132 are among the most common in the galaxy and are known to host groups of small planets, the researchers said that they are encouraged by their discovery and the possibility that such worlds could maintain atmospheres despite the high levels of activity in and around such stars.

This phenomenon is considered responsible for the small number of new stars most galaxies in the known universe produce every year.

Over at least two years, TESS will survey more than 200,000 stars, and will be able to find many new exoplanets orbiting these stars, including Earth - sized and super-Earth-sized (larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune), which are now known to be the most common in our galaxy.

It now seems that we can be sure that although giant planets are significantly rarer around the small red stars whose numbers overhwhelmingly dominate the galaxy, smaller planets seem to be no less common around the M - dwarfs than they are around solar - type stars.

The new satellites were found in the southern hemisphere near the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, the largest and most well - known dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's orbit.

The nuclei of these galaxies change brightness every few weeks, so we know that the objects in the center must be relatively small (about the size of a solar system).

Excluding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, which can't be seen from northerly latitudes, the Andromeda galaxy — also known as M31 — is the brightest galaxy in all the heavens.