The gallery, with its planned clutter of brilliant objects, is a delightful surprise that plays to a viewer's inner acquisitor.
These central black holes apparently formed several billion years ago; they are now observed forming in galaxies at large distances (and, therefore, because of the time it takes light to travel to Earth, at times in the far distant past) as brilliant objects called quasars.
There's the effulgence of tooled gold, the lapis, the vermilion, but there's also subtle psychology: a superb object and a brilliant image.
Observationally a supernova is the sudden appearance of a brilliant star-like object in a part of the sky where no star was previously visible.
So the team picked clouds that were perfectly aligned between Earth and an even more distant quasar, the most brilliant type of object in the universe.
The painting shows her great skill, which is evident not only in her superb, precise, and accurate technique but also in her brilliant combination of objects in an out-of-doors setting flowers, grapes and other fruit, a bird's nest with eggs, and lizards and insects that demonstrates the richness of nature and its exotic variety.
Everyone who was anyone had their portrait made by Warhol, and those portraits of powerful people in America are brilliant and beautiful objects.
Two astrophysicists appear to have cleared up the puzzling distribution of matter that blocks certain wavelengths of light from brilliant, far-off objects called quasars, resulting in a "forest" of dark lines in their spectra as seen from Earth.
The Metropolitan Museum's new exhibition of art in China during the period of occupation by Mongol invaders -- "The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty" -- is a typically brilliant exercise in object-wrangling.
The cosmic environment that produced us depends on a complex chain of pathways, one that would be very different closer to one of the universe's most brilliant, yet black, objects.
