collapsar

• The collapsar, vibrating, behaved not like a perfectly elastic ball but, rather, like a nonuniformly distorting balloon on a bounce, due to the magnification of relativistic effects. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
• The collapsar was named, appropriately, Hades—because the Eurydice would be preceded by an unmanned colossus, a missile to be used only once, the Orpheus. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
• From the blow of the gracer, the collapsar was supposed to oscillate between a flattened disk and an elongated spindle for only a moment or two—to all distant observers. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
• Ejected previously into space far from the collapsar, cameras took pictures of the planet, using no little aperture: two astronomical units. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
• The Hermes, having climbed above the ecliptic, plummeted like a stone toward Hades, initially retreating from the star of its destination in order to reach it more easily, at the gravitational cost of the collapsar: circling the collapsar, it received from its field a hefty push. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem

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