hypernova

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Hellenic *(h)upér

Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)

Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *nu

Proto-Indo-European *néwos

Proto-Italic *nowos

Latin novusder.

English nova

English hypernova

From hyper- + nova.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊvə

Noun

hypernova (plural hypernovas or hypernovae)

1. (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
   • 1999, American Museum of Natural History. Natural History Magazine Incorporated, Natural History‎^[1], American Museum of Natural History, page 529:

     Over the past half-century those wavelengths have revealed a universe of previously unimaginable violence: pulsars, quasars, black holes, and, just recently, hypernovas (single bursts that pack as much energy into one explosion as ten thousand suns release in their entire lifetimes)

Translations

the gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole

• Catalan: hipernova f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 極超新星 / 极超新星 (jíchāoxīnxīng)

• Czech: hypernova f
• Danish: hypernova c
• Dutch: hypernova
• Finnish: hypernova
• French: hypernova (fr) f
• German: Hypernova f
• Greek: υπερκαινοφανής (el) m (yperkainofanís)
• Hungarian: hipernóva
• Italian: ipernova f
• Japanese: 極超新星 (ja) (gokuchōshinsei)
• Lithuanian: hipernova f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hypernova

  Nynorsk: hypernova

• Polish: hipernowa f
• Portuguese: hipernova f
• Russian: гиперновая (ru) f (gipernovaja), гиперновая звезда́ (ru) f (gipernovaja zvezdá)
• Spanish: hipernova f
• Swedish: hypernova

See also

• collapsar