Photons

(n) //ˈfəʊtɒnz//

Meaning

Tiny particles that are the basic units of light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation

Pronunciation

UK /ˈfəʊtɒnz/

US /ˈfoʊtɑːnz/

Example Sentences

The ring itself is light bent into a circle by gravity, photons that would otherwise have escaped, grazing the edge of an absence.

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What the First Photographs of a Black Hole RevealedA black hole [cannot] be photographed, and yet in 2019 we did exactly that. What the Event Horizon Telescope revealed was never the hole itself, but the silhouette it carves in the incandescent gas or...Read story

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