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- Wed Oct 28, 2015 9:40 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star (2015 Oct 28)
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Re: APOD: Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star (2015 Oct 28)
(...) If it can't reduce its fusion quickly enough, its production of energy may overwhelm its rapidly shrinking gravity. The star will simply go pop. That's right, degenerate materials at high temperatures would be at the star core, so that would be a tremendous amount of energy just waiting to do...
- Wed Oct 28, 2015 8:10 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star (2015 Oct 28)
- Replies: 22
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Re: APOD: Massive Black Hole Shreds Passing Star (2015 Oct 28)
Nice one. Just wondering if my understanding is correct(...) You are absolutely correct. What is occurring at 0:16? It looks like the integrity of the star suddenly fails, like a balloon popping. Is that the core of the star being ejected? It looks almost as if the outer layers were yanked away lea...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:58 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: When Black Holes Collide (2015 Oct 20)
- Replies: 74
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Re: APOD: When Black Holes Collide (2015 Oct 20)
I was surprized to see the Einstein ring keeping turning even after the complete absorption of the smaller black hole. I would tend to think that, given that (as madtom pointed out) gravitational information travels at c, once no perturbation is noticeable in the remaining event horizon (i.e the sma...