ultra-luminous
adjecive
physicsspecialized(alsoultraluminous)uk/ˌʌl.trəˈluː.mɪ.nəs/us/ˌʌl.trəˈluː.mə.nəs/shiningextremelybrightlyorproducinga verylargeamountoflight:
Scientists aretryingto makesenseof ultraluminousinfraredgalaxies, whichemitmost oftheirenergyininfraredwaves.
Theastronomerbelievesthat these ultra-luminoussourcesinspacemay have x-raysbeamingtowardsEarth, andpossesstentimesthemassof thesun.
- In the 1970s,astronomersdiscoveredsome ultraluminous X-rays inspace, but it wasunsurewhere they came from.
- Thebrightobjectwasdeterminedto be an ultraluminousinfraredgalaxylocatedmore than abillionlight-years fromEarth.
The qualities of light
- ablaze
- brightly
- brilliantly
- dazzling
- dazzlingly
- dullness
- flickering
- fluorescent
- glittery
- luminescent
- luminous
- lustrous
- moonlit
- optically
- polychromatic
- prismatic
- shining
- sparkling
- starlit
- ultraviolet