How to Use electromagnetic radiation in a Sentence

electromagnetic radiation

noun
  • These black holes emit a jet of matter and electromagnetic radiation that moves at close to the speed of light.
    — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • How do the electromagnetic radiation bursts known as flares decide to erupt?
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2026
  • Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and so is the visible light that our eyes have evolved to see.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • This means black holes emit no light, or electromagnetic radiation.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Solar flares are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation from sunspots on the sun.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Powerful bursts of the right kind of electromagnetic radiation can cripple or kill, or just cause enough pain to make someone go away.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Nothing can escape their grasp, not even electromagnetic radiation such as light waves.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Radar works by beaming a pulse of electromagnetic radiation into the sky.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2020
  • The telescope is designed to pick up a type of intense electromagnetic radiation known as gamma rays.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Quasars are galactic cores where dust and gas fall into a black hole and release brilliant flares of electromagnetic radiation.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
  • These variations are home to clumps of dark matter, a substance that emits little, if any, electromagnetic radiation.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 27 Jan. 2021
  • This emits massive amounts of electromagnetic radiation out into space and towards our planet.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Gamma rays are weightless, high-energy packets of electromagnetic radiation — the same stuff that makes up light.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The plasmas throw out electromagnetic radiation, such as flashes of light and x-rays, and particles like electrons and neutrons.
    — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Now such a puzzle has come in the form of filaments of electromagnetic radiation hundreds of thousands of light-years long—the likes of which have never before been seen.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The most obvious candidate, the team says, is a pulsar – a type of neutron star that produces beams of electromagnetic radiation from its poles.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The report also wants a closer look at the effects of electromagnetic radiation, the microbiome, and the root causes of autism.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Their next task is detecting the star's former location through a search for electromagnetic radiation.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2019
  • That is not true of a merger between black holes, the strong gravity of which prevents any electromagnetic radiation escaping.
    — The Economist, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Flares occur when electromagnetic radiation erupts from the Sun.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Rather than heating by steam as in traditional saunas, infrared saunas use lamps that release electromagnetic radiation into the air.
    — Laura Peill, Outside Online, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Data centers, in contrast, are full of loud cooling fans and rogue electromagnetic radiation caused by high power electronics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 July 2024
  • The electrosensitives seemed to be fleeing something in their lives aside from electromagnetic radiation.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Our brains can also weave the visible light portion of electromagnetic radiation into a beautiful mountain or the glow on our mother’s face.
    — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Lasers are concentrated beams of light that transmit large amounts of electromagnetic radiation, expressed in kilowatts, against their target.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Massive vats of the stuff are tucked deep into boreholes in the earth's crust to limit background noise like electromagnetic radiation that could interfere with measurements.
    — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
  • These displays are the result of eruptions of electromagnetic radiation, or solar flares, and bubbles of plasma that often burst along with those flares, or coronal mass ejections.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Critics built a website that argued, among other things, that the project would unleash dangerous electromagnetic radiation.
    — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This has included solar flares — large eruptions of electromagnetic radiation lasting minutes to hours and traveling outward at the speed of light.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • However, radio waves aren't obscured by this region to the same extent that visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation are.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2026

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