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Heaviest neutron star on record is 2.35 times the Solar mass

2 pointsby lota-puttyalmost 3 years ago

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westurneralmost 3 years ago
What percentage of black holes are formed by neutron star events? What percentage of black holes are formed by gamma ray fluid field interactions?<p>&quot;What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?&quot; (@PBSSpaceTime) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;srVKjWn26AQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;srVKjWn26AQ</a> :<p>&gt; ~ every 30 km<p>How does the gravitational spacetime fluid field disturbance of our comparatively baby <i>non-neutron-star</i> Sun compare in diameter and non-viscosity?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sun</a> :<p>&gt; <i>The Sun&#x27;s diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, comprising about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. [20] Roughly three-quarters of the Sun&#x27;s mass consists of hydrogen (~73%); the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron. [21]</i><p>&gt; <i>The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star</i> (G2V)<i>. As such, it is informally, and not completely accurately, referred to as a yellow dwarf (its light is actually white). It formed approximately 4.6 billion [a] [14][22] years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Most of this matter gathered in the center, whereas the rest flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System. The central mass became so hot and dense that it eventually initiated nuclear fusion in its core. It is thought that almost all stars form by this process.</i><p>&gt; <i>Every second, the Sun&#x27;s core fuses about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium, and in the process converts 4 million tons of matter into energy. This energy, which can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to escape the core, is the source of the Sun&#x27;s light and heat. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point at which the Sun is no longer in hydrostatic equilibrium, its core will undergo a marked increase in density and temperature while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the Sun into a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable – but not for about five billion years.</i><p>G2V &quot;G Star&quot;: Hydrogen + Fusion =&gt; Helium <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;G-type_main-sequence_star" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;G-type_main-sequence_star</a> :<p>&gt; <i>A G-type main-sequence star (Spectral type: G-V), also often called a yellow dwarf, or G star, is a main-sequence star (luminosity class V) of spectral type G. Such a star has about 0.9 to 1.1 solar masses and an effective temperature between about 5,300 and 6,000 K. Like other main-sequence stars, a G-type main-sequence star is converting the element hydrogen to helium in its core by means of nuclear fusion, but however can also fuse helium when hydrogen runs out. The Sun, the star to which the Earth is gravitationally bound in the center of the Solar System, is an example of a G-type main-sequence star (G2V type). Each second, the Sun fuses approximately 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium in a process known as the proton–proton chain (4 hydrogens form 1 helium), converting about 4 million tons of matter to energy. [1][2] Besides the Sun, other well-known examples of G-type main-sequence stars include Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, Capella and 51 Pegasi. [3][4][5][6]</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neutron_star" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Neutron_star</a> :<p>&gt; <i>A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star, which had a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses, possibly more if the star was especially metal-rich. [1] Except for black holes and some hypothetical objects (e.g. white holes, quark stars, and strange stars), neutron stars are the smallest and densest currently known class of stellar objects. [2] Neutron stars have a radius on the order of 10 kilometres (6 mi) and a mass of about 1.4 solar masses. [3] They result from the supernova explosion of a massive star, combined with gravitational collapse, that compresses the core past white dwarf star density to that of atomic nuclei.</i>