extragalactic background light
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
54
Scrabble Score
28
Letters
6
Syllables
16
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
All the accumulated radiation in the universe due to star formation processes, plus a contribution from active galactic nuclei (AGNs).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "An international group of researchers has developed a new way to measure accurately the extragalactic background light (EBL) that fills the universe. The technique involves measuring the attenuation of high-energy gamma rays from distant blazars and it could improve our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve, as well as how the universe has expanded since the Big Bang"
- "Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2 - 20 TeV gamma rays from blazars for about twenty years. These gamma rays can experience absorption along the line of sight due to interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). In this paper, we show that the gamma-ray optical depth can be reduced to the convolution product of an EBL kernel with the EBL intensity, assuming a particular form for the EBL evolution"