How to Use extragalactic in a Sentence

extragalactic

adjective

• One group looked at black holes as a possible explanation, since black holes are the brightest extragalactic radio sources in the sky.
  — Liz Kruesi, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
• Located in a galaxy some 3.8 billion light-years away, the extragalactic planets are too far away to be observed directly even with the biggest telescopes now in existence.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
• The particle was a neutrino, electrically neutral and almost massless, which means its path could be traced back to the extragalactic event that created it.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
• This is an example of how powerful the techniques of analysis of extragalactic microlensing can be.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2018
• True, astronomers still don’t know the origins of these extragalactic milliseconds-long radio pulses, and until this year fewer than 20 had ever been detected.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• IceCube catches about 30 high-energy neutrinos per year that are presumed to be extragalactic.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 2021
• According to the team, this anisotropy indicates an extragalactic origin for the cosmic particles, as many are coming from an area where the distribution of galaxies is fairly high.
  — Dom Galeon, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2017
• Since the discovery of fast radio bursts in 2007, scientists have dedicated efforts to identify the sources of extragalactic phenomena — ones that might exist outside the Milky Way galaxy.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 4 Nov. 2020
• The plot, set in the 28th century, concerns a mysterious radioactive force that threatens the existence of an extragalactic metropolis called Alpha.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• 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.
  — New York Times, 4 May 2022
• But what makes this extragalactic structure so interesting?
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 7 Nov. 2022
• Other computer-simulation research on galaxies has shown that the Milky Way’s contents may have extragalactic origins.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 27 July 2017
• But giant pulses from extragalactic pulsars could also be plausible.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2016
• 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.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
• People who study cosmic rays, supernova explosions or black holes may call themselves galactic or extragalactic astronomers.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 31 July 2017
• However, this alternative still requires an extragalactic push.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2018
• Researchers believe their findings will enable other astronomers to find other extragalactic planets with wide orbits, hopefully leading to larger discoveries for the scientific community.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2021
• Beyond the boundary of our own galaxy, the accelerated cosmic expansion offers an ideal backdrop for permanent social distancing among extragalactic civilizations.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2020
• According to the theory, inflation stretched infinitesimal quantum fluctuations in those first moments to extragalactic size.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
• In fact, scientists discovered several extragalactic explosions that year.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Dec. 2021

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