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What is a collapsar?

What is a collapsar? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (astronomy) The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star
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Hence they deduce that the observable Universe is a collapsar, a huge black hole.
Still, the collapsar is an extremely attractive model that fits a wide range of observed gamma-ray bursts.
The early detections are just what theorists need to refine their picture of collapsar fireballs, says astrophysicist Andrew MacFadyen of Caltech.
Two papers scheduled for an upcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters appear to support the collapsar model.
A key feature of the collapsar winds is that they are capable of producing radioactive elements necessary to power a long-duration supernova light curve.
It was shown above that the Universe considered as a sphere of incompressible liquid is a collapsar.

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