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free-fall comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
collapse	contraction	Sudden contraction of a celestial body
free-fall	collapse	A collapse in which gas clouds do not hit or impede one another. According to ELS, the Galactic halo formed in a free-fall collapse.

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