Sentences with phrase «where supermassive black holes»

According to a popular scenario explaining the formation and evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes, radiation from galactic centers — where supermassive black holes locate — can significantly influence the molecular gas (such as CO) and the star formation activities of the galaxies.

Unlike previous SDSS surveys, they are not only mapping the centers of galaxies where supermassive black holes live, but the outer edges of the galaxies as well, which allowed them to discover the red geyser galaxy.

The discovery follows decades of astronomers searching for small black holes in the galactic center, where a supermassive black hole lives (SN: 3/4/17, p. 8).

The disc grows to a point where the supermassive black hole can no longer accrete or «digest» efficiently and matter is blasted out into the surrounding interstellar medium.

This led them to conclude that there is a gasless «bubble» at the Milky Way's centre — the region where its supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * is.

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This material could eventually fall into the galaxy where it could fuel future star birth and feed the supermassive black hole.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive black hole and the galaxy where it resides.

Where two distant galaxies collide, three supermassive black holes engage in a gravitational dance.

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.

It may be the result of an active galactic nucleus, where energy is gushing from a supermassive black hole.

In addition to the bright and chaotic features, each merging galaxy of NGC 5256 contains an active galactic nucleus, where gas and other debris are fed into a hungry supermassive black hole.

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.

Most scientists are sure that in the centre of our galaxy there is a supermassive black hole; there are binary systems where one of the components is most likely a black hole.

But if all goes well, the team even has a prediction of where the collision is most likely to take place: In a neighborhood like the Sombrero Galaxy, where a slightly less massive supermassive black hole means the collision would happen more slowly, leaving scientists more time to spot its signature.

Previous observations had revealed that these filaments that stretch out from NGC 4696's main body encircle a bright centre, where an active supermassive black hole is feeding on dust and debris and heating up the surrounding gas to temperatures that make it glow white - hot.

But astronomers also know that much larger, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of large galaxies including the Milky Way, where Sagittarius A * weighs as much as 4 million suns.

With adaptive optics, Ghez and her colleagues have revealed many surprises about the environments surrounding supermassive black holes, discovering, for example, young stars where none were expected and seeing a lack of old stars where many were anticipated.

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.

«We asked, what if we could find a place where stars could grow much faster, perhaps to the size of many thousands of suns; could they form supermassive black holes in less time?»