INTERGALACTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intergalactic mean? 

• INTERGALACTIC (adjective)
  The adjective INTERGALACTIC has 1 sense:

1. between or among galaxies

  Familiarity information: INTERGALACTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERGALACTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Between or among galaxies

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

intergalactic space

Pertainym:

galaxy ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust)

 Context examples 

These observations indicate that the powerful winds associated with the starburst phenomenon could be one of the mechanisms responsible for seeding material and injecting a magnetic field into the nearby intergalactic medium.

(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)

That's based on supercomputer simulations that identified a new phenomenon called intergalactic transfer, and it could help us unlock the secrets of how galaxies evolve.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But it is a "gentle giant," say researchers, because it looks like it has been sitting quietly over billions of years, possibly sipping hydrogen from the filamentary structure of intergalactic space.

(Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy, NASA)

During its plunge, the galaxy plows through intergalactic material, like a boat moving through water.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

The astronomy team captured data from these two galaxies as they were during a period of cosmic history known as the Epoch of Reionization, when most of intergalactic space was suffused with an obscuring fog of cold hydrogen gas.

(Massive primordial galaxies found in ‘halo’ of dark matter, National Science Foundation)

A massive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy has been observed pumping a vast spout of cold molecular gas into space, which then rains back onto the black hole as an intergalactic deluge.

(ALMA and MUSE Detect Galactic Fountain, ESO)

Both Andromeda and the Milky Way appear to have about the same total mass, about 800 billion times that of our sun, suggesting that the result of this intergalactic gravitational battle may actually be a tie.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Although these intergalactic winds are thought to be very fast – maybe several hundred kilometers or miles per second – the vast distances involved means this atom sharing would've taken place over billions of years.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers using the airborne observatory SOFIA found definitively that the wind from the Cigar Galaxy not only transports a huge amount of gas and dust into the intergalactic medium, but also drags the magnetic field so it is perpendicular to the galactic disc.

(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)

It is likely that much of the Milky Way's matter was in other galaxies before it was kicked out by a powerful wind, traveled across intergalactic space and eventually found its new home in the Milky Way.

(Half Our Body's Atoms Could Have Come from Outside The Galaxy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)