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gravastars

gravastars is the plural of gravastar.

Meaning of gravastar

Noun

gravastar (plural gravastars)

  1. A proposed alternative to black holes that is more consistent with quantum mechanics.
    • These dark objects do not have an event horizon, and there is no singularity at their center, as is the case with classical black hole solutions in general relativity. In the gravastar, the quantum physics of the baryonic matter at the shell or crust surrounding the interior vacuum prevents the...2020, John W. Moffat, The Shadow of the Black Hole, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 35

Questions about gravastars

What is gravastars the plural of?
Gravastars is the plural of gravastar.

Words near gravastars in the dictionary

  1. gravamen
  2. gravamens
  3. gravamina
  4. gravaminous
  5. gravastar
  6. gravastars
  7. gravatar
  8. gravatars
  9. Gravatt
  10. Gravatts
  11. grave

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