Dwarf galaxies gobbled by their giant neighbours


Science | 206846 hits | Sep 08 1:17 am | Posted by: Hyack
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Spiral galaxies are known to grow by swallowing their diminutive neighbours; as this process occurs, the dwarf galaxies become severely distorted.

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  1. by avatar GreenTiger
    Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:49 pm
    Are there black holes at the center of these spiral galaxies?

  2. by avatar hurley_108
    Wed Sep 08, 2010 3:51 pm
    "GreenTiger" said
    Are there black holes at the center of these spiral galaxies?


    There's one at the centre of ours. I don't know how common they are, though.

  3. by avatar andyt
    Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:09 pm
    A supermassive black hole is the largest type of black hole in a galaxy, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses. Most, if not all galaxies, including the Milky Way, are believed to contain supermassive black holes at their centers.

  4. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:20 pm
    "hurley_108" said
    Are there black holes at the center of these spiral galaxies?


    There's one at the centre of ours. I don't know how common they are, though.

    They are quite common. Most Galaxies (~80%) that we've looked at have detectable black holes at their centres. The black holes in colliding galaxies will eventually attract each other and become a super massive black hole. That will in turn promote the next galactic collision with it's neighbour, or a passing galaxy.

  5. by avatar andyt
    Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:22 pm
    I guess my post was in Swahili.



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