... hole; this process is not well understood. In the case of blazars, the galaxy is oriented such that we're looking right ... . "Astronomers are learning that the various constituents of the jets in blazars interact in fairly complicated ways to produce ...
... know what -- is likely responsible for these flares." Blazars, like many active galaxies, emit oppositely ... wavelengths, if less dramatically. "In red light, the blazar brightened by more than two and a half times to magnitude ...
... nucleus containing a supermassive black hole. In a blazar, however, the emitted light sometimes includes ...
Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
... may indicate something new about the emission mechanisms of blazars, the extragalactic background light, or the propagation of gamma ... galaxy. "There may be something going on in the emission mechanisms of the blazar that we don't understand," Williams said. "There are more exotic ...
... say the finding helps clarify the inner workings of blazars, extremely energetic galaxies that flare up unpredictably ... points toward Earth, researchers call it a blazar, and it is "one of the most impressive high-energy natural laboratories ...
... , M.D., Ph.D., and Bruce Blazar, M.D., discovered that certain stem ...
... have the mildest version of this activity, while quasars and blazars are hundreds of times more powerful. The astronomers picked ...
... in Pegasus, a type of active galaxy called a blazar. It's now undergoing a flaring episode that makes ...
A galaxy erupts with blazing particles, a dummy is put to smart use on the space station, and more in the week's best space pictures.
... traveling near the speed of light. Some, called blazars, are especially bright because one of the jets happens ...
... of active galaxies emitted gamma rays -- blazars and radio galaxies," said Luigi Foschini at Brera ... jets. For the most luminous active-galaxy classes -- blazars -- astronomers are looking right down the particle ...
... half of them with objects known at other wavelengths." Blazars -- distant galaxies whose massive black ...
... . "Most of the galaxies Fermi sees are exotic and distant blazars, which produce jets powered by matter falling ...
... versions of distant galaxies (called quasars and blazars) whose emissions are thought to be powered by enormous ...
