red supergiant

Scientific  

1. An extremely large red giant star with a minimum of 15 solar masses. The best known red supergiant is Betelgeuse, with a luminosity about 10,000 times that of the Sun. When a supergiant collapses into a supernova, it may result in either a neutron star or a black hole.

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Example Sentences

It is a red supergiant of extraordinary size, large enough to contain more than 400 million Suns.

From Science Daily

These patterns provided strong evidence of the long-suspected companion star and revealed how it affects the red supergiant's outer atmosphere.

From Science Daily

The newly detected wake provides the strongest proof yet that a companion star is actively disturbing the atmosphere of this red supergiant.

From Science Daily

SN 2024ggi began as a red supergiant with a mass between 12 and 15 times that of the Sun and a radius 500 times larger.

From Science Daily

That's the red supergiant Betelgeuse - one of the largest dying stars in the Milky Way!

From Space Scoop