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Neutron Star Found Where a Black Hole was Expected

space.com — A star 40 times the mass of the Sun collapsed to form a neutron star instead of a black hole. Good read!

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  • scottevans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0RandomSkratch, isn't that the chicken dance? LOL
  • HeWhoIsPale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What kind of pics are you expecting?
    "See that dark spot? There used to be a star you could see there!"

    Whatever, digg for stellar scientists admitting they don't really know how that crap works.
  • RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0c'mon and let's all do the neutron dance...ohh ahh..
  • m0laria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So basically, the scientists are saying, "Uhh, ya, so it collapsed, and we were like wtf? I guess some stars become neutron stars that way. Yeah...let's tell em that Bob."

  • goliath553, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who cares ... honestly how much free time do you have?
  • RandomSkratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0scottevans nono, there was this cartoon a really long time ago that had people doing the Neutron Dance..lol
  • ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ bunkka

    Impatient lil devil aren't we?
  • catsfather, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not exactly news. The idea of neutron stars is as old as the idea of black holes. Throw some more mass into the mix and we reach a point where light can't escape the gravity well of the dead star and we get ... well, let's call it a black hole.
  • BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OH SHIIIIIIIIIT
  • justinp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The Chandrasekhar Limit is ~1.4 solar masses and is the limit past which a star cannot form a white dwarf and must further collapse.

    The limit at which a star cannot form a neutron star and must further collapse is ~3.2 solar masses.

    Or, at least it was?
  • TehJesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0umm this has been knowen for a long time and as far as i was concerned we know exactly what mass a star should have to become a black hole it is called the chandaskler(sp?) limit but if a star like thay said can get its wait down to below this limit before undertaking gravatational colapse than it will form a neutron star. they have not really told me anything new i dont think.

    also catsfather is right the main thinking behind black holes is how would a star know to lose the exact amount of weight/mass not to form a black hole and what if we added more mass to a netron star to push it over the limit.
  • rocketrye12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0we're ALLLLLL gunnna die
  • Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0dude I didn't know rosanne was 40 times the size of the sun.
  • bunkka, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0pics or STFU!

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