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The Antennae Galaxies are an example of a starburst galaxy occurring from the collision of NGC 4038/NGC 4039. Credit: NASA/ESA. A starburst galaxy is one undergoing an exceptionally high rate of star formation, as compared to the long-term average rate of star formation in the galaxy, or the star formation rate observed in most other galaxies.
SDSS J113706.18-033737.1 (PGC 125758) is a dwarf starburst galaxy with a mass of 100 times the mass of the sun. This galaxy is located 395 million light years away from earth. It is currently undergoing a burst of stellar formation forming 0.5 solar masses a year. [2] [3]
The average mass of these clusters is around 200,000 solar masses, hence the starburst core is a very energetic and high-density environment. [7] Throughout the galaxy's center, young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside the entire Milky Way Galaxy. [18] In the core of M82, the active starburst region spans a diameter of ...
NGC 3125 is a large starburst galaxy in the constellation Antlia.It is located approximately 50 million light-years away from Earth.Starburst galaxies are galaxies in which unusually high numbers of new stars are forming, springing to life within intensely hot clouds of gas.
A black hole was later discovered near the center of the dwarf galaxy, suggesting that the black holes found at the center of most large galaxies may have formed before the galaxies themselves. [3] Recent estimates have placed the mass of this black hole around 3 × 10 6 M ☉, and the mass of the entire dwarf galaxy at about 1 × 10 10 M ☉. [2]
It has an active galactic nucleus [10] and is classified as a starburst galaxy containing a massive nuclear star cluster with an estimated mass of 10 5 solar masses and an age of 4 million years, [11] as well as a central candidate supermassive black hole weighing around 5×10 6 M ☉ solar masses. [12]
NGC 3310 is a grand design spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.It is a starburst galaxy and it is likely that NGC 3310 collided with one of its satellite galaxies about 100 million years ago, triggering widespread star formation.
HFLS3 is the name for a distant galaxy at z = 6.34 (i.e. 12.8 billion light-years), originating about 880 million years after the Big Bang. [2] Its discovery was announced on 18 April 2013 as an exceptional starburst galaxy producing nearly 3,000 solar masses of stars a year. [2]