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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

«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 supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way also betrays its presence by its influence on nearby stars.

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

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

On the evening of July 3, 2014, both of the mighty 10 - meter Keck Observatory telescopes were steered by Dr. Andrea Ghez and her team of observers from the UCLA Galactic Center Group to study the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

One of the main drivers of this global collaboration is to study in detail the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way.

When the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way consumes an incoming cloud of gas, NASA's Swift telescope will be on the scene.

See images of new observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope showing a gas cloud ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Radio data shows that the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is producing powerful jets of high - energy particles.

«This collaborative work is an exciting step forward in our collective efforts to gain a greater understanding of our own Galaxy and Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the center of it,» added co-lead author Dr. Chris Packham, from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

The supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4258 is about ten times larger than the one in the Milky Way, and is also consuming material at a faster rate, potentially increasing its impact on the evolution of its host galaxy.

An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, a second - year master's student of science at the University of Tokyo, and Kotaro Kohno, a professor at the University of Tokyo, successfully captured a detailed image of high - density molecular gas around an active supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy called NGC 1097 at the highest sensitivity ever achieved.

Figure 1 Composite image showing how powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy in the Phoenix Cluster inflated huge «bubbles» in the hot, ionized gas surrounding the galaxy (the cavities inside the blue region imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory).

Maunakea, Hawaii — Stars forming in galaxies appear to be influenced by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, but the mechanism of how that happens has not been clear to astronomers until now.

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

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).

The «virtual telescope» is first getting up close and personal with Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Then, the team behind the new paper compared those ages with the size of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxies those stars live in, which other scientists had previously calculated.

A group of astronomers in Germany and the Czech Republic observed three stars in a cluster near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Quasars are among the most luminous objects in the universe, and generally are believed to be powered by material being drawn into a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, releasing large amounts of energy.

The position of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, as well as the giant star S2, are shown (inset) in this near - infrared image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile.

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

The predicted size of the shadow cast by the event horizon of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way is about 50 microarcseconds (that is one fifty millionth of an arcsecond, which is 1 / 3600th of a degree!).

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is hidden behind dense clouds of dust and gas.

And the portrait they're attempting to capture is close to home: Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

This is the glowing accretion disk of gas that can form around a supermassive black hole at the center of an otherwise ordinary galaxy.

The picture, pinned above his desk, shows a bright orange and yellow blob — the glow of cosmic gas as it gets devoured by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Not exact matches

Yes, we have the telescopes to measure the positions of stars orbiting the supermassive black hole located at the center of our galaxy.

A supermassive black hole, like the one illustrated above, lurks at the center of our galaxy, deceptively quiet.

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.

Over the past several decades, though, astronomers have realized that black holes are not so unusual after all: Supermassive ones, millions or billions of times as hefty as the sun, seem to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies.

«While we don't yet know what dark matter is, we do know it interacts with the rest of the universe through gravity, which means it must accumulate around supermassive black holes,» said Jeremy Schnittman, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

These ultra-compact dwarfs are around 0.1 percent the size of the Milky Way, yet they host supermassive black holes that are bigger than the black hole at the center of our own galaxy,» marvels Ahn.

Supermassive black holes have a mass of more than 1 million suns, and are thought to be at the center of all big galaxies.

Together, the three examples suggest that black holes lurk at the center of most of these objects, potentially doubling the number of supermassive black holes known in the universe.

After charting stars in the heart of our galaxy traveling at speeds up to 50 times faster than Earth circles the sun, scientists are convinced that a supermassive black hole is pulling the strings, as only the relentless grip of a supermassive black hole could keep these frenzied stars locked into orbit within the galactic center.