💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Failed supernova"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| supernovanoun | (astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed. |
| hypernovanoun | (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole. |
| gravitational collapsenoun | The stage in the evolution of a star in which the pressure of the star is insufficient to maintain it at a stable size, and its material falls inward under its own gravity, eventually forming a black hole or a neutron star, and sometimes accompanied by a supernova explosion. |
| kilonovanoun | (astronomy) A type of supernova that is underluminous, caused by the merger of two neutron stars |
| supernova impostornoun | (astronomy) An extremely energetic stellar flare event that is bright enough to be mistaken for a supernova, but through later spectral analysis is revealed to not be one. |
| fast-evolving luminous transientnoun | (astronomy) A type of weak supernova whose luminous shell cools quickly and within days goes dark |
| fast blue optical transientnoun | (astronomy) a very short duration bright flash in the visible spectrum; thought to be caused by a type of supernova |
| bosenovanoun | (physics) A very small, supernova-like explosion, which can be induced in a Bose-Einstein condensate by suitably changing its magnetic field. |
| neutron starnoun | (astronomy) A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium. |
| neutronizationnoun | (physics, astronomy) The process, such as within a collapsing star, in which protons and electrons fuse to form neutrons and release neutrinos. |
| black hole starnoun | (astronomy, cosmology) A theoretical early universe object, with the outer layers of a star and a black hole for a stellar core. Theorized to be born of an ultramassive pre-stellar nebula collapse to an ultramassive protostar, and later birthing an intermediate mass black hole when the star's life ends. |
| dwarf novanoun | (astronomy) A cataclysmic variable star consisting of a close binary star system in which one of the components is a white dwarf that accretes matter from its companion. |
| runaway starnoun | (astronomy) A star that has a high velocity relative to its surroundings (typically the result of a supernova in a binary star system). |
| superbubblenoun | (astronomy) A very large region of space, relatively free of matter, carved out of the interstellar medium by the combination of multiple supernova bubbles resulting from supernovae. |
| deleptonizationnoun | (physics, astronomy) The loss of leptons from a supernova or rotating protoneutron star |
| superwindnoun | (astronomy) An outflow of highly energetic radiation and material from a starburst galaxy. |
| jet cocoonnoun | (supernovae astronomy) A cloud of gas that obscures the poles of a star undergoing hypernova (HN), which gets heated by the polar jet escaping the hypernova progenitor star (hnp), and may absorb the energy of a weak gamma-ray burst (GRB), leaving an observable HN lacking the associated GRB, or be penetrated by a stronger GRB, giving a HN with an associated GRB. |
| superbouncenoun | An extremely big bounce. |
| frozen starnoun | (astrophysics) Synonym of stellar black hole. |
| carbon burningnoun | Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: thermochemical oxidation of carbon. |
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