Did you by any chance mean one of these? gravest, gravitas
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- n. astronomy, physics A proposed alternative to black holes that is more consistent with quantum mechanics.
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- Blend of gravitational, vacuum, and star (Wiktionary)
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My God, It's Full of Stars!
stellar black hole, micro black hole, black hole, collapsar, hypernova, supernova, nova, variable star, stellar core, strange star, quark star, compact star and 37 more...
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qroqqa A postulated alternative kind of structure to a standard black hole. Instead of a permeable event horizon it has a thin, dense shell of matter; instead of centring on a point singularity, the vacuum within the shell undergoes phase transition to a Bose-Einstein condensate.
The name is 'gravastar' rather than the expected *'gravistar' to include the vacuum aspect. Aug 6, 2008