NOUN
- the implosion of a star resulting from its own gravity; the result is a smaller and denser celestial object
How To Use gravitational collapse In A Sentence
- Neutron stars are the most dense objects of normal matter in the universe, supported against gravitational collapse by subatomic forces.
- Let me go back to my earlier discussion of gravitational collapse.
- Gravitational collapse releases energy; and collapse to a single, dimensionless point releases an infinite amount of it.
- It modifies the scenario of gravitational collapse in the following way.
- In 1965 I read about Penrose's theorem that any body undergoing gravitational collapse must eventually form a singularity.
- It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be.
- It modifies the scenario of gravitational collapse in the following way.
- Below this mass, these dense, compact objects are supported against further gravitational collapse by fermion-degeneracy pressure.
- However, Chandrasekhar showed that for a sufficiently massive star the gravitational collapse continues until the star shrinks to a point.
- The no-hair theorem implies that a large amount of information is lost in a gravitational collapse.
