Protobulge
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A group of stars that accumulate into a galactic bulge.
"While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies."
Example
More examples"While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies."
Etymology
From proto- + bulge.
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