superexplosion

plural superexplosions · alternative super explosion · alternative super-explosion

1. A particularly large or intense explosion (in any sense).

   These are the criteria required to consider the N individual explosions to act in concert as a single superexplosion.

   1986, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.), Gaseous Halos of Galaxies, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, page 88

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   1979, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization, (Chapter 4. Xenology: The Context of the Universe)https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/xenology/04.0.htm The energy corresponds to a constant, uniform temperature of 2.7 K. This actual relic of the primeval ylem superexplosion strongly affirms the Big Bang theories, and appears to verify the Cosmological Principle mentioned earlier.

   Nebulae hurled apart by a titanic superexplosion swirl in huge eddies, whirlpools of galaxies race apart, planetary systems are born, gaseous nebulae and galactic systems collide.

   2000, Mikhail Vasilyev, Kirill Stanyukovich, Matter and Man, University Press of the Pacific, →ISBN, page 154