extragalactic
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of extragalactic
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The four researchers stressed in their paper that they haven't conclusively shown that the black hole's spin "truly powers the extragalactic jet," though the evidence certainly leans in that direction.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
What began during lockdown as a live multimedia cartoon, about a feline mission to stop extragalactic rats from devouring the moon, is now a hilarious graphic novel.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
The spacecraft could perform other transformational science, such as studying the extragalactic background light, the collective cosmic glow from all luminous objects in the observable universe.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2022
The rate at which IceCube detects extragalactic neutrinos is “a strong hint that these are the sources,” says theorist Eli Waxman of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 31, 2021
At such a rate, we will reach it in ten billion years, and extragalactic astronomy will then be a great deal easier.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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