collapsar
nounEtymology Blend of collapse + star, patterned after quasar, pulsar. By surface analysis, collapse + -ar
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Astronomy, Natural sciences The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star.
- Synonyms
- stellar black hole, SBH
- Derived terms
- supercollapsar
- Related terms
- hypernova
- Coordinate terms
- stellar mass black hole, StMBH