halo

A supermassive black hole sits within its immense central concentration of stars, while Chandra's X-ray observations reveal a widespread halo of gas heated to millions of degrees and the hot remains of stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

“What it does is restore the brand halo at the top of the market,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That curtain has been swapped out for something entirely new: a design titled “The Things We Know,” featuring a pensive-looking boy and girl beneath a halo of light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The crater appeared as a "large bright spot circled by a dark halo" by the LRO probe, which has been studying the Moon since 2009.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

She took in the small face framed by an unruly dark halo.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Accretion disks are fast-spinning haloes of matter that orbit around black holes at high speeds.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021

Our advice is to not be impressed by these general haloes but instead to focus on specific credentials.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 2020

His nose was squat and red, and he had lumpy white, bunched-up eyelids circling his small gray eyes like haloes of bacon fat.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

These galaxies feature enormous halos and powerful winds of gas heated to millions of degrees.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

New arrivals to paradise seeking halos and wings are viewed by heaven’s longtimers as laughable naifs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

“I was there, and I was a pop star — my thing was wearing ornate halos all the time,” you might say.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Chinese lanterns hover above their heads like red halos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

The illumination is so bright, my arms have halos around them.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

I’m not ashamed to admit that there have been times when those 32-ounce tubs just stare at me day after day, haloed by the refrigerator light, moving further from consumable and closer to petri dish.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

“The way her hijab haloed Nour’s head” gives her a saintly presence, “or so Jimmy thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Keith Haring, the art world’s celebrated graffitist, drew the distinctive red-and-gold album cover, featuring a haloed figure cradling a child.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

Angels pride was evident throughout the space, from the beer mirrors on the wall to the black plastic coaster stand adorned with a large red haloed “A.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

At each road intersection Billy’s group was joined by more Americans with their hands on top of their haloed heads.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

She became slimmer, blonder, sleeker, her cheekbones carved by shadow, a golden nimbus haloing her hair.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath