Collapsar

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star
  • Word Usage
    "The collapsar was a black pinprick against the filtered image of the huge star, and then a dot, and then a rapidly swelling ball, and then there was the odd twisting feeling and we were suddenly in dark deep space."
    cross-reference
    hypernova  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts