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How small would you have to crush an object for it to become a black hole?
I was wondering how much you had to crush an object for it to become a black hole. Recently I learned that anything could become a black hole (even you) if it were crushed down small enough, for ...
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What happens to a white dwarf past the Chandrasekhar limit?
This is a multiple choice question I had trouble with on an exam.
Will a white dwarf that has had too much mass piled on top of it
a) undergo a thermonuclear flash and explode in a type IA supernova
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What type of energy is escaping from black-hole's poles?
Following this article, it is stated that:
As a star drifts too close to a supermassive black hole, intense tidal
stresses rip the star to shreds. As this happens, the shredded
material will ...
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Relation between black hole mass and radius, and our universe's [duplicate]
Is there a graph of known black holes, with their estimated mass in the X axis and their estimated radius in the Y axis? If so, where can we find it? I would like to know if a black whole with the ...
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