Galactic Centre

See also: Galactic centre and galactic centre

English

Proper noun

the Galactic Centre

  1. Commonwealth spelling of Galactic Center.
    • 2013 January 2, Mark Prigg, “The mystery of the 'monster' charged particles coming from the centre of our Galaxy (but don't panic, astronomers say they aren't dangerous)”, in Daily Mail‎[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 January 2013:
      'The options were a quasar-like outburst from the black hole at the Galactic Centre, or star-power — the hot winds from young stars, and exploding stars,' said team member Dr Gianni Bernardi of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 'Our observations tell us it's star-power.' In fact, the outflows appear to have been driven by many generations of stars forming and exploding in the Galactic Centre over the last hundred million years.
    • 2021 December 30, Carole [Ann] Haswell, “The great beyond: Five of the most exciting pictures of the universe”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      3. The Galactic Centre / This image looks deeper into space to the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.
    • 2022 May 12, Joe Pinkstone, quoting Ziri Younsi, “Supermassive black hole at the centre of Milky Way galaxy pictured for first time”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
      It was especially challenging because of the haze of stars, dust, and gas in between Earth and the Galactic Centre, as well as the fact that the pattern of light from Sgr A* [Sagittarius A*] changed quickly, over the course of minutes.
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