galaxyless

English

Etymology

From galaxy +‎ -less.

Adjective

galaxyless (not comparable)

1. Without galaxies.
   • 1985, S. Böhme, Prof. Walter Fricke, H. Hefele, Inge Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, Lutz D. Schmadel, G. Zech, Literature 1984, Part 2, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, published 2013, →ISBN, page 737:

     It is conjectured that these five galaxyless sources are not very distant background objects, but are produced by some plasma effect in the subcore medium of the Hercules Cluster.

   • 1992, Addison Greenwood, Marcia Bartusiak, Barbara A. Burke, National Academy of Sciences, Edward Edelson, Science at the Frontier, National Academies Press, page 71:

     In mapping specific regions of the celestial sky, astronomers in the 1970s began to report that many galaxies and clusters appeared to be strung out along lengthy curved chains separated by vast galaxyless space called voids.

   • 2009, Alastair Reynolds, House of Suns, Orion, →ISBN, page 14:

     Even the Absence was visible: that thumb-sized smudge of starless, galaxyless darkness in the direction where the Andromeda used to lie.