Zwicky

[ tsvik-ee ]

noun

1. Fritz [f, r, its], 1898–1974, Swiss astrophysicist, born in Bulgaria, in the U.S. after 1925.

Zwicky

/ ˈtsvɪkɪ /

noun

1. ZwickyFritz18981974MSwissSCIENCE: astronomerSCIENCE: physicist Fritz. 1898–1974, Swiss astronomer and physicist, working in the US from 1925; noted for his study of supernovae

Example Sentences

In search of answers, a team of astronomers used the Zwicky Transient Facility, an automated telescope that looks for objects that change in the night sky, to hunt for varying AGNs.

From Science Magazine

In 2019, a routine observation by the Zwicky scope noticed a previously unheralded quiescent galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away, suddenly brighten.

From Science Magazine

In February of 2020, he and his colleagues got lucky, with the detection of AT2020ocn, a bright flash, emanating from a galaxy about a billion light years away, that was initially spotted in the optical band by the Zwicky Transient Facility.

From Science Daily

Over the last century, beginning with work in the 1930s by Fritz Zwicky, a Bulgarian-born Swiss astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, astronomers have slowly concluded that most of the universe is composed of stuff we can’t see.

From New York Times

Ho wrote the software that flagged the event in September 2022, while sifting through a half-million changes, or transients, detected daily in an all-sky survey conducted by the Califrnia-based Zwicky Transient Facility.

From Science Daily