How to Use elliptical galaxy in a Sentence

elliptical galaxy

noun

• The gravity of the elliptical galaxy in the foreground has bent the more distant galaxy’s light.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• Above the white elliptical galaxy to the left is a faint red arc, which is actually a very distant galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Oct. 2022
• Few new stars are known to form in elliptical galaxies.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• The quasar is located in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo and is one of the closest to Earth.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but the researchers believed this one became an elliptical galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2020
• Just last year, astronomers published the first-ever picture of a black hole and its event horizon, a 7 billion-solar-mass beast at the center of the M87 elliptical galaxy.
  — Chris Impey, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• Just last year, astronomers published the first-ever picture of a black hole and its event horizon, a 7-billion-solar-mass beast at the center of the M87 elliptical galaxy.
  — Chris Impey, The Conversation, 30 Oct. 2020
• The unique signature of a blazar is a giant elliptical galaxy with two jets emitting light and particles, moving close to the speed of light along the axis of the black hole's rotation.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
• And the object's current shape won't last; in a few hundred million years, the cores of the two original galaxies will merge, and NGC 3256 will become a large elliptical galaxy.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 1 June 2018
• In 500 million years, the two cosmic systems will complete their merger to form a single elliptical galaxy.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• More than 50 million light-years away, in the heart of a giant elliptical galaxy called Messier 87, a gargantuan beast is devouring anything that strays too near.
  — National Geographic, 10 Apr. 2019
• The team determined this by looking at quiet elliptical galaxies that formed early in the universe that have changed little in modern epochs.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2023
• These tend to be older, massive elliptical galaxies or those that are rapidly forming stars.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Jan. 2020
• Astronomers estimate that in 4 to 5 billion years, our own Milky Way Galaxy and Andromeda will collide and combine to form one giant elliptical galaxy.
  — Michael D'estries, Treehugger, 31 Aug. 2023
• That groundbreaking snapshot featured the supermassive black hole at the center of M87, a massive elliptical galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
• According to the release, the photograph is of the black hole located in Centaurus A, a giant elliptical galaxy that is located 12 million light-years away from our planet.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 26 Dec. 2021
• To test this possibility, Farrah and his colleagues studied elliptical galaxies, which contain black holes with millions or billions of times the sun’s mass in their centers.
  — Byadam Mann, science.org, 13 Feb. 2023
• That end result will convert the two spiral galaxies into one spheroidal elliptical galaxy, empty of almost all of its star-forming gas.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2022
• For example, astrophysicists believed that when two delicate disk galaxies like our Milky Way collide and merge, the process would wad them up into a single blobby elliptical galaxy.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
• The first scenario ever developed that could successfully explain elliptical galaxy formation has also been one of the most resilient.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• Once the pair come together, the resulting formation may look more like elliptical galaxy Messier 89, also located in the Virgo constellation.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• Taken together, these observations revealed a blazar - a giant elliptical galaxy with a spinning supermassive black hole at its core.
  — Sarah Kaplan, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• Taken together, these observations revealed a blazar – a giant elliptical galaxy with a spinning supermassive black hole at its core.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2018
• In crowded environments like galaxy clusters, these elliptical galaxies can collide and merge again to form an even larger elliptical galaxy.
  — Erika K. Carlson, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2019
• Thirteen million light years away, a handful of relatively small galaxies revolve in a disk around the larger elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. There's nothing unusual about a collection of small galaxies orbiting a large one.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2018
• This collision isn’t just triggering bouts of extreme star formation as part of an ongoing process that will see these two individual galaxies eventually form as one massive elliptical galaxy, however.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
• Scientists have also theorized that some large irregular galaxies could represent an intermediate step between spiral and elliptical galaxies.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 5 July 2023

Last Updated: 29 Jul 2024