gravastar
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A proposed alternative to black holes that is more consistent with quantum mechanics.
Example Sentences
- "These dark objects do not have an event horizon, and there is no singularity at their center, as is the case with classical black hole solutions in general relativity. In the gravastar, the quantum physics of the baryonic matter at the shell or crust surrounding the interior vacuum prevents the formation of a general relativity event horizon."