How to Use radio galaxy in a Sentence

radio galaxy

noun
  • The surrounding plumes of incredibly hot gas exert their own pressure, in this case even higher than most other radio galaxies.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The X-ray emissions from these radio galaxies come from jets of particles blasted out from around feeding supermassive black holes at near-light speeds.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 29 July 2026
  • In the direction the solar system moves, slightly more radio galaxies should appear, but this is such a minor variation that it can only be revealed by incredibly sensitive instruments.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • The new findings represent a major step forward in understanding the life cycles of radio galaxies, and also how supermassive black holes function as the engines powering jets that drive vast radio lobes.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The result is an external pressure far greater than is typically experienced by galaxies of this type, known as radio galaxies due to their brightness in the radio region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Remnant radio galaxies represent the final stage in the evolution of radio galaxies, at which point the jets from the galaxies' central regions, or active galactic nuclei (AGNs) powered by feeding supermassive black holes, have switched off.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • This allowed astronomers to trace supermassive black hole jets, which could be important in understanding how this injection of energy influences the evolution of host galaxies, while also uncovering some of the largest and oldest radio-bright AGNs, also known as radio galaxies.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The team behind this research studied 14 candidates for faded or remnant radio galaxies found in a region of the sky over Earth, studied intensely by the XMM-Newton X-ray spacecraft, called the XMM–Newton Large-Scale Structure (XMM–LSS) field.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026

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