Sentence examples for gravitational collapse from inspiring English sources

"gravitational collapse" is an acceptable phrase in both spoken and written English.
It generally refers to the process of a star's core shrinking as gravity becomes too strong for the star to support itself against. For example, you might say, "The star's gravitational collapse created a black hole in the center of the galaxy."

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gravitational collapse

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The stage in the evolution of a star in which the pressure of the star is insufficient to maintain it at a stable size, and its material falls inward under its own gravitational attraction, eventually forming a black hole or a neutron star, and sometimes accompanied by a supernova explosion.

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With Kent Harrison, Kip Thorne and Masami Wakano he wrote Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse (1954).

Critical phenomena in gravitational collapse.

Hawking, S. W. Breakdown of predictability in gravitational collapse.

"And most of this energy was supplied by gravitational collapse," Dr. Moscatelli said.

At the center of the nebula, the Sun was being born through gravitational collapse.

He also contributed to related problems in gravitational collapse and star formation.

Gravitational collapse can occur spontaneously i.e., through random fluctuations of density.

Conventionally, black holes form during a gravitational collapse, after a large supernova for example.

These clouds are the sites where new stars are formed through the gravitational collapse of some of their parts.

These, and other hypothetical conditions of gravitational collapse, were borne out in later discoveries of pulsars and neutron stars.

This turns the body into a main sequence star, producing light, heat and enough radiation pressure to stop gravitational collapse.

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