Sentences with phrase «surrounded by a galaxy»

Further studies showed that this object, called B3 1715 +425, is a supermassive black hole surrounded by a galaxy much smaller and fainter than would be expected.

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As I sit at the shot - at tree The rough wound opens and grows strange and deep Within the wood, till suddenly I see A galaxy aswirl with flame, I do not sleep And yet I see a trillion stars speed light In ever - singing dance within the hole Surrounded by the tree.

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

[4] Spiral galaxies have an obvious disc structure, with a distended bulge of stars in the centre and surrounded by a diffuse cloud of stars called a halo.

Most of the universes» galaxies, which each contain billions of stars, are surrounded by up to several thousands of so - called globular clusters, groups of up to a million suns packed into dense spheres by gravity.

The evidence: Observations of the way galaxies move and rotate show that they seem to be surrounded by a vast amount of unseen matter.

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies.

Andromeda is surrounded by a swarm of small galaxies — astronomers have counted more than 20.

Under its influence, moderate - size galaxies such as our own should be surrounded by swarms of smaller galaxies.

Kochanek says the Milky Way, too, may be surrounded by small galaxies that lack the ordinary matter needed to make stars.

Those variations denote a lumpy gravitational field, which indicates the intervening galaxies are surrounded by small, unseen companion galaxies.

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

A spheroidal ring projection would mirror the strings of clusters of galaxies seen to surround voids in the universe; voids and string - like formations are seen and predicted by many models of the cosmos.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

appear to be surrounded by massive haloes of dark, unidentified material which betrays its presence only by its gravitational pull on stars and other galaxies.

Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million - degree gas (seen in blue in this artists» rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space.

The Milky Way Has a Posse Astronomers have known since the 1920s that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by smaller collections of stars, essentially dwarf galaxies.

FORTIS sent down a stream of information about the light from bright spots in the spiral arms of the galaxy being fed by gas flowing in from the surrounding circumgalactic medium.

Black holes whip out superheated gas from their accretion disks — pulled together from material in surrounding space by their massive gravity — at such temperatures that the resulting light can outshine entire galaxies.

The Milky Way is surrounded by 23 so - called dwarf galaxies that are the least luminous galaxies known.

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

«The scientific picture of the universe a hundred years ago was that it was static and eternal in which we live in an island universe, our galaxy surrounded by empty space.

The region surrounding our galaxy's core lies, by chance, directly in line with the plane of our solar system.

So these are not sort of small players, these are major parts of the energy budget of an accreting black hole and by extension, they have an important impact on their environment; and the jets associated with accreting black holes and nuclei galaxies inflate giant lobes of plasma outside the galaxy and these heat the surrounding gas, they affect the fuel supply, they stimulate star formation, they in fact stimulate galaxy formation.

One theory suggested that they were caused by multiple explosions of individual supernovae in the galaxy surrounding the quasar,» said Jackson.

If it is assumed that a galaxy is surrounded by a spherical halo of neutrinos, and that these contribute enough mass to stop the galaxy from flying apart, then each one must have a mass of about 94 eV.

A study in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics finds that a distant quasar, powered by a black hole, is building a galaxy that will eventually surround the black hole.

One of these is surrounded by a trail of sparkling blue material, which is actually another galaxy.

Located 26,000 light years away from Earth and surrounded by clouds of dust, the center of the Milky Way galaxy is a hard thing for scientists to get a good look at.

The first KiDS results show how the characteristics of the observed galaxies are determined by the invisible vast clumps of dark matter surrounding them.

Observations of the orbits of stars around galaxies suggest that all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are surrounded by a spherical cloud of dark matter (see diagram).

These progenitors of today's giant spiral galaxies are surrounded by «super halos» of hydrogen gas that extend many tens - of - thousands of light - years beyond their dusty, star - filled disks.

The picture was taken by WISE, but has been artistically enhanced to illustrate the idea that clumped galaxies will, on average, be surrounded by larger halos of dark matter (represented in purple).

Paper and Research Team These observational results were published by Takano et al. as «Distributions of molecules in the circumnuclear disk and surrounding starburst ring in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 observed with ALMA» (in the astronomical journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ), issued in July 2014) and by Nakajima et al. «A Multi-Transition Study of Molecules toward NGC 1068 based on High - Resolution Imaging Observations with ALMA» (in PASJ issued in February 2015).

Figure 1 shows a nearby galaxy surrounded by globular clusters.

All big galaxies in the universe host a supermassive black hole in their center and in about 10 percent of all galaxies, these supermassive black holes are growing by swallowing huge amounts of gas and dust from their surrounding environments.

This statement is certainly true if we assume that the only gravitational force present is that exerted by visible matter, but it is true even if we assume that every galaxy in the cluster, like the Milky Way, is surrounded by a halo of dark matter that contains 90 percent of the mass of the galaxy.»

The top candidates, the astronomers suggested, are a neutron star, possibly a highly - magnetic magnetar, surrounded by either material ejected by a supernova explosion or material ejected by a resulting pulsar, or an active nucleus in the galaxy, with radio emission coming from jets of material emitted from the region surrounding a supermassive black hole.

The bright spiral disk may also be surrounded by a much fainter, outer ring of stars, possibly stripped from at least one, former satellite galaxy.

The Milky Way (like other spiral galaxies) is surrounded by a large halo region which contains globular clusters, large clouds of hydrogen gas, and a huge mass of the mysterious dark matter.

«For example, the Milky Way should be surrounded by hundreds of small, invisible dark matter halos, but we have so far only detected less than 50 galaxies,» says Yozin.

The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy surrounded by dozens of smaller satellite galaxies.

The black hole surrounded by the small galactic remnant is currently speeding away from the core of the much larger galaxy, and will continue to lose more mass as it does so.

On September 24, 2012, astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory announced that our Milky Way Galaxy and some of its satellite galaxies are surrounded by an enormous halo of extremely hot gas at a temperature of one to 2.5 million kelvins.

Most galaxies in the observable universe contain a supermassive black hole at their center, one that is either active and surrounded by an accretion disk of dust, gas and other debris, or is dormant — lurking at the center, patiently awaiting its next meal.

That growth should happen in part by mergers with other black holes and in part by accretion of material from the part of the galaxy that surrounds the black hole.

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

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.

Above it is NGC 5636 - a spiral galaxy consisting of a central bar surrounded by a ring of stars.

IC342 is a face - on weakly barred spiral galaxy with a young nuclear star cluster surrounded by several giant molecular clouds.