Examples of elliptical galaxy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But this particular cosmic jaunt concerned something special—even disturbing: an abnormally hefty elliptical galaxy dubbed C1-23152. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, "Giant Galaxies from the Universe’s Childhood Challenge Cosmic Origin Stories," 27 Jan. 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, "The scariest things in the universe are black holes – and here are 3 reasons," 30 Oct. 2020 The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but the researchers believed this one became an elliptical galaxy. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Astronomers find galaxy similar to Milky Way more than 12 billion light-years away," 12 Aug. 2020 This old, elliptical galaxy is about 800 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Telescopium, and its jets are shaped like two boomerangs placed back to back to form an X. Why? — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, "A Black Hole’s Boomerangs," 14 May 2020 These tend to be older, massive elliptical galaxies or those that are rapidly forming stars. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "Closest-ever fast radio burst makes some ideas on their origin less likely," 7 Jan. 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, "What created this 'ghost particle' from space found on Earth?," 2 Oct. 2019 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, "First-ever picture of a black hole unveiled," 10 Apr. 2019 Few new stars are known to form in elliptical galaxies. — National Geographic, "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/galaxies.html," 17 Apr. 2019

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