protobulge
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Noun[edit]
protobulge (plural protobulges)
- (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.