plural of collapsion

(archaic) collapse

The belief that a system or entity will collapse.

plural of collapsible

plural of collapsibility

plural of eternally collapsing object

A proposed alternative to a black hole whose collapse continually slows down, and that does not form an event horizon

The point at which the assumed truths of an artificial or imagined reality are eroded to reveal actual reality.

The stage in the evolution of a star in which the pressure of the star is insufficient to maintain it at a stable size, and its material falls inward under its own gravitational attraction, eventually forming a black hole or a neutron star, and sometimes accompanied by a supernova explosion.

(genealogy) The phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).