Concept information
Preferred term
supermassive star
Definition
- A star with an initial mass over about 120 solar masses. The existence of such stars is the present Universe is not confirmed. Such stars were proposed as an explanation for very bright O type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but these are now known to be clusters of ordinary O stars. (An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics, by M. Heydari-Malayeri, https://dictionary.obspm.fr/index.php?formSearchTextfield=supermassive+star&formSubmit=Search&showAll=1)
Broader concept
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-J7XGBGJN-6
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