protobulge

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English

Etymology

From proto- +‎ bulge.

Noun

protobulge (plural protobulges)

  1. (astronomy) A group of stars that accumulate into a galactic bulge.
    • 1984, Joshua Edward Barnes, On the Origin of Galactic Bulges, the Evolution of Groups, and the Distribution of Abell Clusters:
      While we have produced box-shaped models (figure 6), the protobulges used were already somewhat box-shaped, and did not resemble elliptical galaxies.