... Our Sun is part of a huge wheel-shaped collection of stars. ... Astronomers have long suspected it was a very massive black hole, and that every galaxy had such a central mass, created early in the history of the universe. ... However, unless that object happens to be headed directly at the black hole (a relatively small target) it will just swing around and fly away again, like a comet making a pass at the Sun. The velocity acquired in falling towards the black hole also helps it escape. ...

... X-Rays From The Galactic Center . ... CXO , NASA Explanation: Exploring quasars and active galaxies in the distant universe, astronomers have come to believe that most galaxies have massive black holes at their centers. ... Other individual X-ray sources are also present in the picture which spans about 10 light-years at the distance of the galactic center . ... Publications with keywords: black hole - Galactic Center - X-ray . Publications with words: black hole - Galactic Center - X-ray . ...

home resources > books . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Buy The Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy at Amazon.com! Reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes . In 1974 astronomers discovered a bright radio source at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It was an unknown quantity then, but astronomers now know that the object is a supermassive black hole causing a maelstrom of activity at the galactic center. ...

... 2000 January 20 . X-Rays From The Galactic Center . ... Explanation: Exploring quasars and active galaxies in the distant universe, astronomers have come to believe that most galaxies have massive black holes at their centers. ... Now, though relatively faint, the missing X-ray source may have been found. ... Embedded in a diffuse cloud of X-ray hot gas , the white dot at the center corresponds to an X-ray source at exactly the position of the strong radio source and suspected black hole. ...

... Two new LBV stars have been discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy. ... In Figure 1 the spectral energy distributions for six stars are shown: upper row - the newly discovered LBV stars, middle row - two well-known LBV stars Var A-1 and AE And, the lower row - two new B[e]-supergiant stars in Andromeda. ... Infrared spectra of the stars in the Andromeda Galaxy: two classical LBVs Var A-1 and AE And, two new LBVs J004526.62 and J004051.59, and two new B[e]-supergiants J004417.10 and J004444.52. ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Using a database view Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), containing almost a million spectra created 15,000 sample galaxies with active star formation, which is used for various studies and physical state of evolution of galaxies. ... Star clusters of the Galaxy . The project MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) directory using 2MASS, which includes nearly 500 million vision to the limit Ks = 15.3, analyzed more than 4,000 cluster-like objects in the galaxy. ...

Star formation is often best manifested by bright H II regions.These are regions of hydrogen which have been ionized by ultraviolet photons which are emitted from massive stars (typically stars more than 20 times the mass of the Sun). ... A narrowband filter image centered on this wavelength will then readily reveal these H II regions and hence the current sites of star formation in a galaxy, The luminous blobs that can be seen here are all H II regions . ... NGC 3558 Visual . NGC 3558 Infrared . ...

EMBARGOED UNTIL: 9:20 AM CST, January 6, 1999 CONTACT: John Biretta Space Telecsope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (Phone: (410) 338-4917; Internet: biretta@stsci.edu) HUBBLE DETECTS FASTER-THAN-LIGHT MOTION IN GALAXY M87 Astronomers reported today discovering clouds which appear to move many times faster than the speed of light, shooting out from the region of a black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. ... It's an illusion created by the finite speed of light and rapid motion," Biretta said. ...

... Star Atlas . ... solar system . ... stars . ... Observe the Solar System . ... What factors determine if a massive star (say, 100 solar masses) forms instead of a Sun-like star? ... Stars of all masses form from dense clumps within exceptionally cold molecular clouds. ... Massive stars tend to form at the centers of high-mass reservoirs of gas. Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... A gamma-ray burst hints that LIGO's double black holes started as one massive star . ...

HIPASS Name RA, DEC(J2000) l, b NED ID peak rms mom0 vsys w50 w20 vLG MHI Ref. ... Col(1,2) = HIPASS name (HIPASS Jhhmm-dd; A,B,C if needed) . Col(3,4) = HIPASS center position in RA, DEC (J2000) . ... NGC6822 0.490 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . DDO210 0.880 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC0055 1.480 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ... ESO594-G004 1.060 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . IC5152 1.590 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . WLM 0.925 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . NGC3109 1.250 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . SextansA 1.440 Mpc (Mateo 1998) . ...

... X-rays are made up of photons that are emitted from stars, or quasars, or supernovae, the sun, or simply: anything that is undergoing a change either in size or temperature or giving out heat. ... in an X-ray binary star system, in which one normal star's orbit is crossed by a neutron star, when the neutron star by means of gravitational pull takes matter from the normal star X-rays form. ... Artists conception of a normal star (HDE 226868) and a black hole taking matter from the normal star. ...

... Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the front end of the disk eclipses more stars than the back, it appears darker. ... Despite its size, the disk is 100 times less massive than the black hole. ... The bright spot in the center of the disk is the combined light of stars that have crowded around the black hole due to its strong gravitational pull. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... We are exploring the evolution of massive binary star populations for a nuclear starburst occuring in the conditions similar to the Milky Way galaxy, in its central part, on a time scale of 10 Myr. ... Our results include the number of X-ray transients (NS + main sequence star), super-accreting black holes (BHs), and binaries consisting of a BH + supergiant, all as functions of time. ... Spatial distribution of X-ray binaries at the Galactic center after the starburst . ...

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... ROTATION CURVE: When studying spiral galaxies it is invariably found that the stellar rotational velocity in the disk remains constant, or "flat", with increasing distance away from the galactic center. ... By the same argument the flat galactic rotation curves seem to suggest that each galaxy is surrounded by significant amounts of dark matter. ... What is the maximum rotation velocity and the total amount of mass (including dark matter) in the galaxy as a function of radius. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Galaxies . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... Part of the Deep 3 Deep Public Survey field, showing the brightest galaxy in the field ESO 570-19 (upper left) and the brightest star UW Crateris. This red giant (upper right) is a variable star that is about 8 times fainter than what the unaided eye can see. ... ESO 570-19 , UW Crateris . ...

... Stars . ... Cepheid variable stars have been known since the 18th century. ... Regularly brightening to a peak over days, weeks or months before fading these variable stars were remarkable curiosities to astronomers in past centuries.€а The term Cepheid is taken from the star Delta Cephei in the constellation of Cepheus, which was identified as variable€а in 1784 by the teenaged prodigy John Goodricke (1764-96). ... Tweets that mention Cepheids: Inconstant Stars which break the rules | ...