Sentences with phrase «supermassive central black holes»

Most major galaxies harbor supermassive central black holes.

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But almost all of that light is being produced by the galaxy's central supermassive black hole — not by its stars.

The central galaxy in this cluster harbors a supermassive black hole that is in the process of devouring star - forming gas, which fuels a pair of powerful jets that erupt from the black hole in opposite directions into intergalactic space.

Researchers may have figured out how the 100 or so stars around the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole could have formed.

After billions of years, the dwarf's central black hole made it to the galactic core and began a tight gravitational tango with the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

The leading suspects in the half - century old mystery of the origin of the highest - energy cosmic particles in the universe were in galaxies called «active galactic nuclei,» which have a super-radiating core region around the central supermassive black hole.

Most astronomers think that these objects generate their enormous amounts of energy as gravity and friction heat material that falls into a central «supermassive» black hole.

Like every major galaxy, it has a supermassive black hole in its core — specifically, Andromeda's has a hefty 100 million times the mass of the Sun, making it far larger than our own Milky Way's 4 million mass central black hole.

Whereas nearly all previous simulations considered aligned disks, in reality, most galaxies» central supermassive black holes are thought to harbor tilted disks — meaning the disk rotates around a separate axis than the black hole itself.

A leading theory is that star - making materials are scattered by torrents of energy released by a galaxy's central supermassive black hole as it sloppily devours matter.

Akira's gravity pulls Tetsuo's gas into its central supermassive black hole, fueling winds that have the power to heat Akira's gas.

Astronomers can't wait for the gas cloud known as G2 to reach our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, as shown in this simulation.

This process is likely stopped early on by powerful gas outflows from supernova explosions, stellar winds and possibly even from the central supermassive black hole.

The central region of M77 is an «active galactic nucleus,» or AGN, which means that matter is vigorously falling toward the central supermassive black hole and emitting intense light.

Astronomers have observed tornadolike winds powered by a central active supermassive black hole, such as the one in this image, pervading a galaxy.

Mini-jets of material ejected from a central supermassive black hole appear to be the culprits behind faint radio wave emissions in «radio - quiet» quasars.

A conceptual rendition of gas being driven into a supermassive black hole following a supernova explosion Strong turbulence caused by supernova explosions inside a dense molecular gas disk in the central region of a galaxy disturbs the stable motion of gas.

Meanwhile, a correlation between the rate at which stars form in the central regions of galaxies and the amount of gas that falls into supermassive black holes (mass accretion rate) was known to exist, leading some scientists to suggest that the activity involved in star formation fuels the growth of black holes.

Not coincidentally, galaxy mergers would also trigger the birth of a quasar by pouring material into the central supermassive black hole.

Our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A *, is a sleeping pussycat in comparison.

Figure 3: A schematic view of the fact that an ionized gas outflow (green) driven by the central supermassive black hole does not affect the star formation of its host galaxy.

The jet extends from the central supermassive black hole of the galaxy and reaches out about 5,000 light - years.

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

We now know that galaxies began dying fairly early in the history of the universe, and that central supermassive black holes and galactic collisions play key roles in galactic evolution.

The object is known to have a mass of around 4 million times the mass of the Sun and is considered to be the central supermassive black hole of the Milky Way.

This X-ray image shows the region around our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A * (or Sgr A *).

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a supermassive black hole at its core surrounded by a central bulge of old, yellowish stars.

They will combine several telescopes around the globe to peer into the heart of our own Galaxy, which hosts a mysterious radio source, called Sagittarius A * and which is considered to be the central supermassive black hole.

Based on their observations, they have concluded that the rate of a TDE occurring increases «dramatically» when two galaxies are colliding, most likely due to the fact that such events cause a large number of stars to be formed near the central supermassive black holes of the merging systems.

Our central, supermassive black hole is relatively quiet when compared to its counterparts in other galaxies, flaring only occasionally with X-rays and infrared light as objects fall into it.

If the foreground galaxy has a supermassive black hole at the center, the central image becomes much fainter (Figure 5).

Anglés - Alcázar develops large cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the formation of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes.

A study result shows that the mass of a supermassive black hole is approximately proportional to that of the central part of the galaxy (galactic bulge).

VLBA image of the central region of the galaxy 0402 +379, showing the two cores, labeled C1 and C2, identified as a pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around each other.

Astronomers anticipate exciting new areas of science to open up after using Webb to study stars at the beginning and end of their «lifecycle,» as well as stars» behavior around the galaxy's central supermassive black hole.

From the theoretical point of view there are currently two favored scenarios of what is going on around the Milky Way central supermassive black hole.

Previous Hubble observations have revealed that supermassive black holes, weighing millions or billions times more than the Sun, reside at the centers of nearly all galaxies and may play a role in shaping those central regions.

Astronomers believe that supermassive, central black holes generate the radio, X-ray, and gamma - ray energy radiated by active galaxies such as Centaurus A, as well as quasars like SDSS J1030 +0524.

Analyses of SDSS data have also led to the discovery and characterization of «hyper - velocity stars,» moving so quickly that they will escape from the Milky Way entirely, apparently as a result of interactions with the Galaxy's central supermassive black hole.