What's new

The life cycle of a neutron star

dexter

SENIOR MEMBER
Joined
Apr 17, 2009
Messages
6,111
Reaction score
25
Country
Pakistan
Location
Pakistan

About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain its structure, it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The death of that star is the birth of a neutron star: one of the densest known objects in the universe.
 

About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain its structure, it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The death of that star is the birth of a neutron star: one of the densest known objects in the universe.

And if the initial star is even more massive (I think around 20 or more solar masses iirc is where the probability is significant enough), the collapse doesnt stop at the neutron level, but continues to become a *insert sinister music* a black hole....DUNH DUNHHH DUNNNNNHHHHHH
 
About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain its structure, it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The death of that star is the birth of a neutron star: one of the densest known objects in the universe.
A supermassive star will in fact turn into a blackhole at the end of its fuel
However, medium to large sized stars collapse into the superdense neutron stars..however a neutron can enter into a tango with a nearby star and suck life out of it and turn that star into a neutron star and their tango gets faster and faster until the embrace (with bang) into a black hole and then these blackholes move towards the galactic centre while scavenging through the stars on their way and near galactic there are many black holes that merge into a supermassive blackhole which keeps all the stars orbiting around it or galactic centre or more precisely something like Berry centre.
In Holy Quran, the rapidly rotating neutron stars i.e. pulsars are Tariq

النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ - 86:3
SAHIH INTERNATIONAL
It is the piercing star

 
Last edited:
Back
Top Bottom