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Etymology

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From magnet +‎ -oid.

Noun

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magnetoid (plural magnetoids)

  1. (astrophysics) a supermassive rotating highly magnetized star at the center of a compact galactic nucleus.[1]
    • 1981, Victor J. Stenger, Dumand-80, page 194:
      A young black hole formed in the center of galaxy can develop into the cocooned black hole or, as extreme possibility, into a magnetoid with a black hole inside.

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