Example Sentences

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The “NOVA” presentation, bookended by takeoff and splashdown footage, isn’t for astrophysicists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

He hired astrophysicists, cryptographers and speech-recognition experts — no Wall Street experience allowed.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

With his passing on Tuesday, India lost one of its most celebrated astrophysicists.

From BBC • May 23, 2025

To answer this question, our team of astrophysicists looked back in time across the universe’s 13.8 billion-year history to track how supermassive black holes have grown from the early days to today.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2024

In 1965 several astrophysicists at Princeton University were calculating what would have happened right after the big bang.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife