NASA | Colliding Neutron Stars Create Black Hole and Gamma-ray Burst

[hagenhh1]

good video!

[hagenhh1]

great pictures.

[prchecker]

some really good stuff here

[thnk4urself]

a sugar cube that weighs more than all the water in the great lakes, that's actually kind of scary

[wsmarcel]

Putz! Que dahora hein! Abraço do Brazil, bejomeliga!

[tomahshari2009]

the computer stimulated image at 1:22 ... is it from NASA? cuz I've seen the same with the Chandra Observatory...?? O__O

[RockPwnsYou]

I may not understand a lot of this, but I still think it's cool...

[heloogangtas]

0:16 - 0:28

That's a Kamehameha

[Sm0k4bl3]

@heloogangtas 0:30 spirit bomb xD

[chamlyon]

Blackholes used to swallow everything around it. Is it possible to swallow the Earth or other planet when the collision occurs near the planets?

[xNeo2Rememberx]

@chamlyon I don't think you understand the gravity of a black hole. If you were to get near enough to pass through the event horizon time would stop for you. So you freeze at the event horizon because time stops for you. But even before you froze you already passed through and went into the singularity collapsed infinitely. When something falls through, it travels much faster than the speed of light making escape impossible.

[MaaveMaave]

That was friggin sweet, what jerk missed the Like button?

[tensebiscuit]

@MaaveMaave got too close to the black hole

[MissionPossibleTX]

evolution evilution devilution delusion

[Xellith]

@MissionPossibleTX christianity christinsanity insanity.  less steps. yay.

[WeaselWJ]

@Xellith LOL :D

[luckytom13]

that looks like 2 stars having sex.

[vita9n]

bra13vo do you understand it? Ahem. . . .

[MidnightRedemption]

fascinating..

[qixxxz]

The ticks and tocks of infinity, counted off by some minute spectator. Do the clocks of the universe unwind for our ears to hear? If not for life, would the stars grow cold in no time at all? The stone never counted the march to the end. A slice of forever is all we can have. A small part indeed. Why are we here? A wise man may ask. To count all the stars quips the fool.

[SkylandSandmich]

Very intriguing.

[SkylandSandmich]

Very intriguing.

[FoThatGirl]

I guess I'm kind of a geek at heart. " I Love this stuff" :)

[mehigh2marsiansky]

nice graphics from Damiana. but those collisions must be extremely rare since theres is such vastness that when galaxies collide there are barely starcollisions.

[aarti3103]

Aeronautics is just passionating!!!

[AzaDee78]

With such beautiful mystery in the entirety of the Universe, and indeed on Earth, it amazes me that we Humans are so conflicted with each other. Imagine if we spent the worlds combined War budgets on space exploration.... We'd all be escaping to other worlds for our holidays... Instead, we continue to kill each other. We are so smart, yet equally stupid. Some of us see the light, and that has to be enough for now.

[Omega1818]

i don't yet have the sufficient knowledge but i am interested in atrophysics

[LsBaba]

Seriously cool.

[kirox777]

i wana view these gamma rays through a powerfulasfuck telescope! (*__*)

[TheAdeSings]

Wow, love this stuff!

[julsHz]

I'd love to see the simulation code... fantastic stuff.

[flagman57]

@julsHz yah it seems like it would be really complicated. I tried a non-graphical simulation of a ball bouncing (including the complete flex of the ball when it touches the ground), and that took months. The code on this would be insane.

[anmoose]

Incredibly fascinating, and in a way it makes my brain hurt. As the scope of the known Cosmos expands, it becomes more and more intimidating.

[djsuperstar717]

It's amazing how it happens soooo fast

[djsuperstar717]

I always knew a BlackHole was a Super Dense DarkStar,

no one believed me tho...

[djsuperstar717]

WOW!!!

This is how BlackHoles are created;

Amazing

[bunnyhead515]

so basically , to dumb this down, this is what happens when the super spicy burrito meets the stomach. burrito+stomach=massive fart. where the massive fart simulates the short gamma ray burst. simple stuff really.

[Nuel2080]

definetely right, i agree with you most of the people in this world are so selfish that they don't care about anything else beyond their own lives.

[GoreTorn16]

wow facinating!

[ntt688]

For me these supercomputer simulations can also be viewed as beautiful art.

[keesachterstevoren]

The magnetic field goes crazy when they collide ..... jeeessss

[b4byfac3]

Magneto !!

[enriqueDFTL]

Amazing. =D

[MatthewMk27]

That was so cool. Thanks NASA.

[Renegade30]

awesome video NASA, please keep up this style, i hate it when you dumb things down! :D

[kirox777]

wow gamma rays seem so amazing and beautiful! i want to warp through space where one is about to take place and look at it through a telescope *_*

[Panthiest]

@kirox777 Me to. But we'd need the enterprise for that. :( lol

[SubTachyon]

Can any physicist or someone savvy in the field clarify this for me please: How close are neutrons to each other in a neutron star?

[AstroChispa]

@SubTachyon From wikipedia, density ~ 10^17 kg/m^3, we divide by de mass of a neutron ~10^-27 kg, and we obtain the density of particles, n~10^37 particles/m^3, then, the MEAN separation between neutrons is (1/n)^(1/3)~10^(-37/3)~10^-12 m ~ 10^-2 angstroms, 1/100 the size of an hydrogen atom. The separation is just an aproximation, because the density varies with radius.

Again, sorry for my english :P

[SubTachyon]

@AstroChispa Cheers. I asked because I was wondering whether or not they interact through Strong Force but from you calculations it would appear they do not.

[AstroChispa]

@SubTachyon they do interact because they move with respect to each other.

[SubTachyon]

@AstroChispa Well this is what I was wondering about. Wouldnt they all innevitably end up undergoing fuison due to strong force and ending up in one giant super atom? Obviously they do not but why not?

[neobattle2]

wow,

[CheeseBon]

that is freaking awseome! i want a sward made of a newtron star and a super powered cyborg arm to lift it XD

[theycallmeken]

@NASAexplorer please make a video on Terrestrial Gamm-ray Flashes!

[swiessin]

@theycallmeken There is a video that NASAexplorer released about TGFs making antimatter. It's titled Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Create Antimatter.

[FelipeZucchetti]

Great video....thank you people for share it...

[maryjane592]

What an awesome video!

[oalithgow]

stunishing !!!

[fmahalem]

wow, thats really a complex simulation! amazing

[bra13vo]

i bet only 0,0000013% of the human on this Earth care about this...

more will care if they have the sufficient knowledge to understand it. i'm one of them.

[cosmicharlie1970]

@bra13vo I'm smart too! I'm smart too! Can I be in the club? Screw those dumb people!

[MightySaturn5]

@bra13vo you spelled suffffficient with only two f's -you're a failure of Einsteinian proportions

[bra13vo]

@Sardanapalus96 @MightySaturn5 @cosmicharlie1970 LOL.. i mean I'm one of the people who would care if we have the sufficient knowledge.. didn't mean I'm one of who already have the knowledge

[MightySaturn5]

@bra13vo we were only teasing....hope you have a great weekend and take care

[KDALove]

@bra13vo What an arrogant fool.

[WonderNoobie]

@bra13vo

who cares

[risteristevski]

@bra13vo and whose fault is it, that you haven't the sufficient basic knowledge of astrophysics? I'm not a scientist too, but in my free time I frequently read and watch documentaries about things that I find most intriguing.

[Akshayk7]

@bra13vo yes, we are the minority :)

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@bra13vo i hope your right

[davincentcode]

@bra13vo I think it's the other way around, besides, you really think less then 100 'human' care about this.. You're so wrong.. Space travel is the future for humans and other earthly organisms.. It amases me that you can understand such a complicated subject, but can't even understand the simplest reason for people to do care about this subject.. Not even mentioning the rest of your faulty statement..

To see you've got the 'top comment' really scares me.. That means humans are devolving!

[bra13vo]

@davincentcode It's "amazes" not "amases". OK, faulty, so is your statement, as follows: "Humans are devolving!". You're generalizing that all 27 likes I have are the only representative of humans on Earth. Don't forget about people who uses their time more useful rather than watching random videos on YouTube. Yes, I'm one of them.

(the percentage was just a random number, exaggeration for fun, it's YouTube not CNN, clearly it didn't get through to your 'serious' mind)

Peace. Love. *smiley*

[davincentcode]

@bra13vo Since you've got the 'top-comment', yes, I am generelizing. You are right about my 'serious' mind, because you're making a 'serious' comment.. BTW.. Is this a random video? I don't think so..

As for my spelling errors, Yeah I didn't grow up in England, nor did I grow up in any other country where English is their main language.. I also got dyslexia.. I don't care about all that, as long as I can make myself clear to anyone.. One question though.. What is a 'useful' video in your eyes..

[bra13vo]

@davincentcode Have fun trolling.

[davincentcode]

@bra13vo So you like trolling videos.. lol.. Ignorrant fool..

[Nomoreidsleft]

@bra13vo Let's 0.0000013% x 6,775,235,700 = 88.07. That's about right. Everyone in the NASA department working on this and their cat (the .07).

[TheOverkill102]

2+2=4

[mallardhead]

thanks!

[MoreYummy]

did they find something similar in recent test with colliding 2 atoms in a tunnel?

[AstroChispa]

@MoreYummy The neutron stars are completely degenerated (Pauli's exclusion principle), is not a solid or liquid or gas. In the LHC protons collide, and produce a lot particles with the energy of the 2 protons in the vaccum. 2 different process, but they share in common that they are putting in a very small space a lot of matter/energy.

Sorry for my english :P

[CROUTONZZ]

I was wondering about this recently, thanks for the video.

[RIOT690]

That's incredible :o

[mrteemumilto]

1:57 So does the @AlbertEinsteinInstitute have an application for anti-gravitational flight to orbit or gravitational propulsion yet?

[Nish2280]

Awesome!

[jaredarm]

Woah. Crazy stuff!

[golojch]

amazing