blitzar
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of blitz + star. Proposed in 2013 by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla. Analyzable as blitz + -ar.
Noun
[edit]blitzar (plural blitzars)
- (astronomy, neologism) A phenomenon that emits a fast radio burst.
- (astronomy, neologism) The object type that generates the phenomenon which emits the burst.