galactic centre
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
name
name
name
Example Sentences
- "They [gamma rays] are produced by supernovae, neutron stars, galactic centres, black holes and the like."
- "The only known source of such intense magnetism in our own galaxy is the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, which sits at the Milky Way’s center. “Maybe this FRB source is in a similar environment, a galactic centre environment,” [Jason] Hessels said."
- "'Quasar' — short for quasi-stellar radio source — are bright galactic centres."
- "Scientists believe galactic centres could act as Schelling points for civilisations that cannot communicate among themselves."
- "This work had to be done by looking at infrared light. That’s because, at visual wavelengths, huge clouds of dust and gas obstruct our vision – we can only see about 10 per cent of the distance to the galactic centre in this way (Sagittarius A* is approximately 26,000 light years away)."
- "If an advanced civilisation anywhere in the Milky Way wanted to put a beacon somewhere … the galactic centre would be a good place to do it."
Inflected Forms
galactic centres (plural)
the galactic centre (canonical)