red supergiant

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.

Example Sentences

This rare supernova, called 2023ufx, originated from the core collapse of a red supergiant star, exploded on the outskirts of a nearby dwarf galaxy.

From Science Daily

With a size roughly 2000 times that of our Sun, WOH G64 is classified as a red supergiant.

From Science Daily

Binary stripped stars have been previously evoked to explain why a third of core-collapse supernovae contain much less hydrogen than a typical explosion of a Red Supergiant star.

From Science Daily

The star is Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation Orion.

From Seattle Times

One of the closest candidates of this size is the red supergiant Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion, located at a safe distance of about 150 parsecs from our solar system.

From Science Daily