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collapsar

noun

Etymology

Blend of collapse + star, patterned after quasar, pulsar. By surface analysis, collapse + -ar

  1. derived from *h₂stḗr✻
  2. inherited from *sternô✻
  3. inherited from *sterrō✻
  4. inherited from steorra
  5. inherited from sterre
  6. compounded as collapsar — “collapse + star”

Definitions

  1. The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star.

The neighborhood

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