supermassive star

[soo-per-mas-iv, soo-]

noun

1. Astronomy.,  a star with a mass more than fifty times the mass of the sun.

Word History and Origins

Origin of supermassive star¹

super- + massive

Example Sentences

JADES-GS-z14-1 is not resolved, meaning it is consistent with a point source, such as a very distant supermassive star would be.

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The black hole that they had confirmed was Cygnus X-1, a binary star consisting of a supermassive star co-orbiting a black hole.

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Regardless, the researchers say, MY Camelopardalis is the first known example of a binary system on its way toward creating a supermassive star.

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It probably happens when any supermassive star collapses to form a black hole, but, says McEnery, “we’re not going to see most of them; we can only detect them when the jets point right at us.”

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Things will play out quite differently for a supermassive star like Eta Carinae, which lies 7,500 light years from Earth.

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