Eta Carinae

[bboychance]

my ass is a black hole....shud i suck it in?

[jsf926]

There's a good chance this star has long since gone super(hyper?)nova. It will take the light 7500 years to reach us and inform us that it has happened.

[TheRoyceanator]

@ clubPenguinMovies no, it will not pull us in cause its 50 or so LY away (witch is far)

[leedsm18]

God I hate ppls misunderstanding of black holes. If our sun became a singularity with exactly the same mass it currently has but compacted to a tiny speck. its gravity would be the same as before at this range. the reason black holes have huge gravity effect is because you can get closer to the 'centre' as its compacted. as you get closer (ie inside what would be the surface of the sun) the effect is much much greater as the mass is all in 1 small point so the pull from all that mass is focussed

[mokaska]

@leedsm18

+1

[marginallymental]

I've heard Eta Carinae is a binary, and I've heard it's a single supermassive star, too. Regardless, one of the chilling things I've heard about it / them is that the lobes are fairly new, only about 150 years old.

[mokaska]

@marginallymental

At first they thought it's a single star, but now they think it's a star system.

The gas cloud makes direct optical observation impossible, so they had to use indirect methods. Now they belive that it's a binary system: the bigger one is 100 times and the smaller one is about 30 times more massive as the Sun.

[marginallymental]

@mokaska, so is one pulling the other apart? They must be orbiting each other very closely. Talk about mass loss!!

[docatomics]

RAGNARöK time`N'space comes to my Earth & Heliosphere

[millroyboy07]

First of all, it's not a single star. It's a binary system containing two stars..hence the latin, "Carina(e)". A binary star system is comprised of two stars. One of the two stars is usually larger(primary). As the stars move closer to each other the larger(primary) of the two locks the smaller(companion) in it's gravitational pull. Eta Carinae happens to be so massive that gravity doesn't have the ability to fully contain the system's energy.

[Fraser1746]

Eta Carinae is 7.500 ly away from us ... if it become a black hole, it will not sucked us in. It's too far away.

[s001boa]

@Fraser1746 If Eta Carinae goes supernova and becomes a black-hole, as it continues to grow, eventually, it likely will suck us all in...it's just a matter of time... However, we likely will not live to see this happen; meaning, the world would have ended long time ago for us to see this anyway so cheer up ;-D. I'm off to go see Betelgeuse and VY Canis Majoris as these are some of my favorite stars... =0)

[zoyclem]

@Fraser1746,

I'd be more worried about the x-rays. A gamma ray burst from the supernoca event could ruin one's whole day.

[peotheshaman]

soo when Eta Carinae destroys it self will it make some sort of a gama projectile or?

[TerranGiraffe]

Hypernova!!! actually

Hypernova= 100 supernove in power/energy look on wiki for more info

[ClubPenguinMovies123]

When it forms a black hole, will we get sucked in?

[Veetina]

@ClubPenguinMovies123 by theory yes but by reality nobody knows!

[ClubPenguinMovies123]

@Veetina wow you did it 58 seconds ago! Good timing. I hope im alive to see it, but I hope I dont get sucked in........

[Latincitizen]

@Veetina What are you talking about! Eta Carina is too far away from us. We will never get sucked in. Anyways the black hole formed by this star will not eat anything as long as the objects are not within the event horizon.

[TheRoyceanator]

@ClubPenguinMovies123 no, it wil not, its like 50 L.Y. away (witch is far!)

[Latincitizen]

@TheRoyceanator Eta Carina is nearly 7,500 ly away from us, not 50 ly... SMH A black hole 50 ly away will not affect us; however, the supernova created by a star capable of generating a black hole will have killed us and any form of life around the star way before that.

[halomaster22323]

WHoa stop the crapping.

[keithknightarjona]

i named a song after this star!!!

[mario927265]

Eta Carinae is the 4 most luminous star and the13 most massive star and the 34 largest known star by radius

[Burpigwet]

Just wait for W Cephei to creat a super nova. It is 7,000,000,000 times the Sun.

[ethorii]

Why does it matter to so many of you that it's a binary? BFD it's a binary system. Is the other star worth mentioning when discussing stats of Eta Carinae? Maybe it does. Just asking...

[MrZimmerson]

oh shit, its gonna turn into a black hole!

[ipodhelper401]

@MrZimmerson At 4900 light years away. We ain't gonna be dinner

[noobdosjogos]

its a binary sar system ... yes it is wiki it

[witnesszer0]

at X150 the mass of our sun so it burps and a lot of material is expeled

[tjohn1986]

its a binary star system actually

[ipodhelper401]

@tjohn1986 It is only one star in two lobes. It is not a binary system

[tjohn1986]

@ipodhelper401 man look it up, it is a binary star system

[ipodhelper401]

@tjohn1986 It could be a myth. There was not a second star for the explosion. It's just one, really bright, massive star

[tjohn1986]

@ipodhelper401 eta carinae is a binary star system

[ipodhelper401]

@tjohn1986

Alright enough. A supernova with the 150 solar masses exploded not to long ago. What they like to call the stars with 130-250 times the mass of the sun are called, pair instability stars. Because They are so massive, they may been beileved to be binarys. They are some of the early past stars we see today that was in the early universe then. It is then a single.

[tjohn1986]

@ipodhelper401 haha nice copy and paste. no it's not a single. google some more

[ipodhelper401]

@tjohn1986 Fine I'll give proof. There was a supernova that was 150 solar masses and exploded in 2006, and flared up, and was a single star, and was 240 million light years away.

[halomaster22323]

@ipodhelper401 Lol I'm Japanese & have better english than you =D

[ipodhelper401]

@halomaster22323 Well that makes sense.

[almariio]

eta carinae es la estrella que mas me ha impactado por esos brazos incandecentes que tiene a su alrededor es una maravilla de la creacion