Sentences with phrase «study colliding galaxies»
At Caltech he built a new kind of spectrograph for the 200 - inch telescope at the Palomar Observatory and used it to study colliding galaxies, which, he learned, get hotter sooner than most people realized.
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A multi-wavelength study of a pair of colliding galaxies has revealed the cause of a supermassive black hole's case of «indigestion».
These objects can tell us how galaxies merge and collide,» says Chris Ahn, doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and lead author of the international study that published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal.
Astronomers using observations from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have studied how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide.
Through the use of two VLT spectroscopic instruments, MUSE and X-shooter, the study team conducted a very comprehensive study of the qualities of the light being emitted from the colliding galaxies.
It has been suggested that gamma rays coming from the dense region of space in the inner Milky Way galaxy could be caused when invisible dark matter particles collide, but two new studies suggest that the gamma ray bursts are due to other astrophysical phenomena such as fast - rotating stars called millisecond pulsars.
«Our team first observed the 15 colliding galaxies in the sample in 2005, during a previous project,» Rob Spence, University of Sheffield PhD student and co-author of the study, said in a statement.
These new studies of galaxy HATLAS J142935.3 - 002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the comparatively nearby pair of colliding galaxies collectively known as the Antennae.
Each of the 15 galaxies the Sheffield team studied was in the process of colliding with another, nearby galaxy, they explained in a statement.
A study of 72 large cluster collisions shows how dark matter in galaxy clusters behaves when they collide.
Webb will study star - birth regions in merging galaxies, revealing how these galactic encounters trigger and alter the course of star formation as their gaseous components collide and mix.
Here are images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide.