dark star (English, noun)
expansion: dark star (plural dark stars)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An extremely bright and massive hypothetical astrophysical object whose illumination is powered by annihilation of dark-matter particles and anti-particles (or by self-annihilation if they are Majorana particles).
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A black hole: star so massive that its escape velocity is above the speed of light, making the star dark, as no light can escape.
tags: obsolete
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, star.
Forms:
form: dark stars
tags: plural