太阳诞生几十亿年前，银河系抛出其重力舌，将临近的一个靠得过近的小星系吞噬。
Billions of years before the Sun was born, the Milky Way galaxy flicked out its gravitational tongue and slurped down a tiny neighboring galaxy that had ventured too close.
研究小组通过比较黑洞和它的寄主星系的质量，可以确定这些黑洞吞噬了多少物质。
The team also compared the masses of the black holes with the total masses of their host galaxies to determine how much matter they had swallowed.
众所周知，黑洞会吞噬周边的一切，但它形成的时间是在它所处的星系形成之前还是之后呢？同样不得而知。
Black holes are known to devour matter, but did they arise before or after, the galaxies in which they exist?
这幅概念图描绘的是，在一个遥远星系中，一颗特大质量的黑洞正在吞噬一颗恒星的场面。
This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.
一个科学小组在学术性期刊《科学》上撰文称这个矮星系后来被我们所在的星系，即银河系吞噬了。
This dwarf galaxy was in turn devoured by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a team writing in the academic journal Science.
这个星系在60到90亿年前被银河系吞噬，这种现象被称为星系同类相食。
This galaxy was gobbled up by the Milky Way between six and nine billion years ago in an act of intergalactic cannibalism.
天体物理学家发现，当一个巨大的黑洞快速吞噬宇宙中的气体和尘埃时产生的辐射，足够摧毁周围星系中初期形成的星体。
Astrophysicists have found that when a supermassive black hole quickly devours gas and dust, it can generate enough radiation to abort all the embryonic stars in the surrounding galaxy.
距离地球最近的黑洞位于24000光年外，在名为V4641射手座的双星系统中，它正在缓慢吞噬自己的伴星。
The nearest black hole to Earth lies about 24, 000 light-years away. A member of a binary system called V4641 Sagitarii, the black hole is slowly devouring its ordinary stellar companion.
藏于几乎每一个星系的中心，吞噬着周围的恒星，超大质量黑洞是在宇宙中有着巨大威胁的事物。
Lurking at the centre of nearly every galaxy and gobbling up stars in their vicinity, supermassive black holes are a truly menacing feature of the universe.
对太空深处的长期观测研究发现了一些巨大的物体：一些迹象显示宇宙初星系中心有特大质量的黑洞在吞噬着物质尘埃。
Long gazes into deep space have turned up something huge: Signs of super massive black holes devouring matter at the hearts of the universe's first galaxies.
银河系周围那个饱含伽马射线释放物质的大泡泡，是由我们星系中心的黑洞——以及它那对恒星的吞噬欲——制造出来的。这是一个国际天文学家团队得出的结论。
Giant bubbles of gamma-ray-emitting materials surrounding the Milky Way are created by our galaxy's central black hole - and its appetite for stars - according to an international team of astronomers.
天文学家很早就了解，年轻的或者“疏散”的星簇最终必然被他们所在的主星系分解和吞噬。
Astronomers have long known that young or "open" star clusters must eventually disrupt and dissolve into the host galaxy.
他们的调查表明，NGC 1316这个巨大的椭圆星系大约在1亿年前开始吞噬位于照片上方、体型较小的旋涡星系邻居NGC 1317。
Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it.
他们的调查表明，NGC 1316这个巨大的椭圆星系大约在1亿年前开始吞噬位于照片上方、体型较小的旋涡星系邻居NGC 1317。
Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it.
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