Sentences with phrase «understanding of massive galaxy clusters»

We truly expect the science from the Frontier Fields to redefine our understanding of massive galaxy clusters and the distant universe.

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The newly discovered black hole is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the opposite part of the sky from the Coma Cluster in a relative desert, said the leader of the discovery team, Chung - Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermMASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermmassive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive.

Which is why astronomers were trying to understand how the massive central galaxy of the Phoenix cluster — a gigantic accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies 5.7 billion light - years away — was producing about 1,000 new stars every year.

Some of the new results included deeper understandings of galaxies in the distant universe, more complete pictures of the massive galaxy clusters, and the searches for exploding massive stars, called supernovae.