Astronomers know the universe became reionized because when they look out in space and back in time at the light of very distant quasars — incredibly bright objects thought to be powered
by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies — they don't see the dimming of their light that would occur through a fog of neutral hydrogen gas.
Possible culprits include the lingering remains of supernovae, the explosions that occur when massive stars run out of fuel and die; and active galactic nuclei, superheated galaxies
with supermassive black holes at their centers that spew out energy at prodigious rates.
The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as
orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.
Eventually, in 10 - 100 quintillion years, these stellar remnants will either have escaped their galaxy's pull, or will have spiraled into
the supermassive black hole at the center.
Note, I actually didn't crunch the numbers, so I could be wrong that our local cluster has stronger gravitational impact than
the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Meanwhile a project called the Event Horizon Telescope aims to use radio observatories scattered around Earth to image
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Last year, astronomers turned to
the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy to watch it tear apart a dusty gas cloud called G2.
Until now, scientists have largely believed that such hypervelocity stars originate when binary stars get torn apart by
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which consumes one star and flings the other away at incredible speeds.
Powerful radio jets from
the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.
And a neutron star nestling up next to a black hole is a plausible setup: There's one orbiting
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy has compressed the mass of 4.5 million sun - like stars into a very small region of space.
For
the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it's been a long time between dinners.
Two arcs of X-ray light hovering next to galaxy NGC 5195 are the hot remnants of two eruptions from
a supermassive black hole at its center, astronomer Eric Schlegel reported January 5 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
At the site of
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for example, she says astronomers routinely observe what looks like interstellar material disappearing without a trace.
The two U-led studies make a strong case that
supermassive black holes at the center of the galaxies are responsible for the extra mass.
High - energy emissions from NGC 1275 are thought to be associated with
a supermassive black hole at its center.
To put general relativity to the acid test, researchers are looking inward — toward
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
Quasars are rare because they are a brief phase that all galaxies go through, when
the supermassive black hole at their centers consumes matter at a high rate.
A century later, that insight underpins cutting - edge physics: searching for gravitational waves, probing the extreme gravity near
the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, tracing the origin of the universe.
The brightest galaxy in a cluster within the Perseus constellation looks like a fiery spiderweb, with filaments reaching out from
a supermassive black hole at the center.
The Milky Way Galaxy, where we live, also has
a supermassive black hole at its center.
Since the mid 1990s, astronomers have known that every galaxy in the universe harbors
a supermassive black hole at its center.
Astronomers speculate that every galaxy has
a supermassive black hole at its center.
Resembling spotlights at a Hollywood movie premier, such beams are probably generated as matter plunges into
a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Scientists also believe there could be
a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every galaxy, including our own.
The Milky Way galaxy, like most large galaxies, has
a supermassive black hole at its center, but some galaxies are centered on lighter, intermediate - mass black holes.
Astronomers have seen them shooting out of young stars just being formed, X-ray binary stars and even
the supermassive black holes at the centers of large galaxies.
Researchers expect to directly measure this phenomenon beginning in the spring as S0 - 2 makes its closest approach to
the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
New observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by
the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Infant stars, like those recently identified near
the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, are surrounded by a swirling disk of dust and gas.
«The electrons that make up the cloud initially bounce off
the supermassive black hole at the center of one of the galaxies and accelerate as a result.
«Despite all odds, we see the best evidence yet that low - mass stars are forming startlingly close to
the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way,» said Farhad Yusef - Zadeh, an astronomer at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and lead author on the paper.
The radio waves in question come from quasars, which are
supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies billions of light years away from Earth.
«The only physical entity capable of extinguishing the star formation in our large elliptical galaxies are
the supermassive black holes at their centers,» explains Nelson.
This causes the gas to flow further inward toward
the supermassive black hole at the center.
Every galaxy harbours
a supermassive black hole at its center.
ALMA discovers remarkably early signs of low - mass star formation near
the supermassive black hole at the center the Milky Way.