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  • adjective Very luminous

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Examples

  • Several nearby galaxies contain brilliant objects known as ultraluminous X-ray sources ULXs.

    Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes | Universe Today 2009

  • The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.

    25,000 New Asteroids Uncovered By NASA's Sky Mapping (PHOTOS) 2010

  • Scientists believe a mysterious intense X-ray emission, called an “ultraluminous X-ray source” or ULX is responsible for the destruction.

    Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today 2010

  • The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.

    25,000 New Asteroids Uncovered By NASA's Sky Mapping (PHOTOS) 2010

  • The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.

    The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines 2010

  • OH megamaser galaxies (OHMG) form an important class of ultraluminous IR-galaxies (ULIRGs) whose maser lines emit QSO-like luminosities.

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2010

  • The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.

    Sci-Tech Today 2010

  • Dr. Wright said he and his colleagues expected to see millions of new infrared sources, including ultraluminous galaxies that are breeding stars copiously inside shrouds of dust, and a thousand of the cool almost-stars known as brown dwarfs, which are bigger than Jupiter but too small to ignite thermonuclear reactions.

    NYT > Home Page By DENNIS OVERBYE 2010

  • The telescope also detected what's thought to be an ultraluminous galaxy, more than 10 billion light years away and formed from other colliding galaxies.

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • The study presents three possible explanations for this object: it is an unusual type of supernova, it is an ultraluminous X-ray source with a very bright optical counterpart, or it is a recoiling

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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