Hypermassive

Quick meaning: Hypermassive is an adjective meaning (chiefly astronomy) Extremely massive.

Meaning

(chiefly astronomy) Extremely massive.

Example Sentences

If the ejecta which will form spiral arms come from a temporarily hypermassive nucleus the necessary gravitational restraint can be applied to them. Such new physics, if valid, would have ramifications throughout astrophysics.

“Wait a minute. Two years ago Johann Karlsen went down into a hypermassive sun, with a berserker-controlled ship on his tail. Unless that story’s not true?” “It’s perfectly true, except we think now that his launch went into orbit around the hypermass of falling into it.

He rode above a thunderstorm at war with a sunset— a ceaseless, soundless turmoil of fantastic clouds that filled half the sky like a nearby planet. But this cloud-mass was immeasurably bigger than any planet, vaster even than most giant stars. Its core and its cause was a hypermassive sun a billion times the weight of Sol.

The old Population I stars, such as the Sun, would have been formed after this original distribution of the heavy elements. Once the hypermassive Population II stars had all disappeared, no further distribution of metals could occur. Population I supergiants would, however, continue to condense from the clouds of cosmic gas as long as any remained.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overmassive, massive, massful, hyperaccreting, massy, astronomical.

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