Sentences with phrase «supermassive black holes at»

[2] Quasars are very bright, distant galaxies that are believed to be powered by supermassive black holes at their centres.

Hubble also probed the cores of collisions, showing that interactions fuel supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

From supermassive black holes at galactic centers to giant bursts of star formation to titanic collisions between galaxies, these discoveries allow astronomers to probe the current properties of galaxies as well as examine how they formed and developed.

A team of astronomers has revealed tantalizing new information about the explosions of massive stars, the workings of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers, and clusters of galaxies.

They may have exotic structures such as supermassive black holes at their centers.

When supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies accrete matter (usually gas), they give rise to a highly energetic phenomena named Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

Artist's conception of the pair of supermassive black holes at the center of the galaxy 0402 +379, 750 million light - years from Earth.

MATISSE will contribute to several fundamental research areas in astronomy, focusing in particular on the inner regions of discs around young stars where planets are forming, the study of stars at different stages of their lives, and the surroundings of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies.

The similar phenomenon has been reported by observational researches of the surrounding environment of supermassive black holes at lower frequencies (millimeter wavelengths).

Various astronomers have speculated that large volumes of interstellar gas collect and collapse into supermassive black holes at the centres of quasars and galaxies.

Quasars are generally thought to be supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies, the black hole surrounded by a spinning disk of material being drawn inexorably into the black hole's gravitational maw.

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies are thought to form through the merging of smaller, yet still massive black holes, such as the ones depicted here.

Many distant galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores, and those black holes power «central engines» that produce bright emission.

Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies.

Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies formed in lockstep with the stellar structures of the galaxies.

Active, supermassive black holes at the hearts of galaxies tend to fall into two categories: those that are hidden by dust, and those that are exposed.

Large galaxies like the Milky Way are thought to have supermassive black holes at their cores.

They found that the rays seemed to concentrate in «hotspots» in the vicinity of particular galaxies, suggesting that they might originate in the overheated matter surrounding supermassive black holes at the galaxies» centres.

Quasars are the discs of hot gas that form around supermassive black holes at the centre of massive galaxies — they are bigger than Earth's orbit around the sun and hotter than the surface of the sun, generating enough light to be seen across the observable universe.

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.

To measure the mass and growth rate of these galaxies» active nuclei — the supermassive black holes at the galaxies» centers — the researchers used data from 12 different ground - based telescopes spread across the globe to complement the data from the Swift satellite.

Such «supercritical accretion» is thought to be a possible mechanism in the formation of supermassive black holes at galactic centers in very short time periods (which are observed very early in cosmic time).

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.

The biggest appetites belong to quasars — supermassive black holes at the cores of distant galaxies.

Studying these quasars will also deepen our understanding of why nearly all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their cores, begging the chicken - or - the - egg question of which came first, the galaxies themselves or the black holes, or whether the two arose interrelatedly.

Jarvis says his group is now using the new technique to weigh supermassive black holes at a wide range of distances and other epochs in the history of the universe.

They are powered by supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies, surrounded by a rapidly spinning disk - like region of gas.

It's back to the drawing board for astronomers and astrophysicists trying to explain why the supermassive black holes at the hearts of some galaxies pump out huge amounts of radiation.

Because of these flares, Cygnus X-3 has been dubbed a «microquasar», since it resembles quasars, the flaring supermassive black holes at the centres of some galaxies.

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.

Most large galaxies we see have supermassive black holes at their centres.

In time, the nearby Andromeda galaxy will hit the Milky Way, and the supermassive black holes at each galaxy's center will form a duo that future observers can scrutinize.

Powerful radiation from supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies creates winds that can blow gas out of the galaxies, halting star formation.

Almost all galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centres.

Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.

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.

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.

The group observed the colossal winds of material — or outflows — that originate near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the pair's southern galaxy, and have found the first clear evidence that stars are being born within them [1].

The supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 5195 has a mass equivalent to 19 million Suns.

The image shows the X-ray and H - alpha arcs, as well as the radio outflows from the supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 5195.

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.

Observations of stellar motion show that there is a supermassive black hole at its core.

As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, some of it is accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light along jets pointed in opposite directions.

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.

IF OUR best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast.

NASA's Fermi space telescope has seen signs of such photons around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, where dark matter is expected to cluster.

A cosmic coincidence hints that high - energy neutrinos and superfast cosmic rays both come from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy

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.

This composite image shows the motion of the dusty cloud G2 as it closes in on, and then passes, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.

NGC1052 - DF2 does reside in a region where such things could conceivably occur, lying near a giant elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart.