Neutron Star Collision

[GaldonEyeStudios]

I thought this was a muse video.

[accountmaniac]

it looks like cell division in reverse kinda.

[brantc]

There is an Earth, Wind and Fire song that is about this sim. Fantasy. Whooooo, whooooo.

[dayoflords]

interesting, what about the relatavistic effects would this cause the collision to take much longer to someone on earth. In theory is it possible that they would never quite join together due to time dilation

[Warlias97]

Thats's sooooooooooooo wrong Neutron stars are extremely dense and solid unlike main sequence stars it wouldn't just "Merge" with another Neutron star. As soon as they collide, a super massive explosion would take place because its sooo dense!!!!

[Viking445]

@Warlias97 my guess would be a magnatar type event. 

[superwarrior15]

physics says that when 2 neutron stars collied it should create a black hole

[MegaBEANER1000]

@superwarrior15 Only if there combined mass's results in a gravitation pull exceeding that of light

[blurock29]

theres gonna be a bitch fight

[MrSheen95]

Stop lying to people. Change the Title to "The Conception of Chuck Norris"

[BillyBoomstick]

Wouldn't that create a black hole?

[thebugrussian]

@BillyBoomstick nope

[11673norley]

@Diginerd0 already part of the flying spagettie monster church;)

MUSE!

[CannonBlade]

if that happened relatively near the earth, we would fry. kthx

[bioreaverfire]

"My love will be forever, and if we die, we die together" (Muse), just like the neutron star collision, there's no doubt about it and I will say it forever: "The most awesome things in the universe are invisible to human eyes" our universe is awesome!!!!

[SamUKest89]

haha, i fancied looking at an actual neutron star collision after listening to the song, there was only one video of it in the search that wasnt muse xD

sorry hawking :s

[IrisWasHere]

MUSE SENT ME!!!

[XSOUPORSALADE2]

muse knows all about this you guys should ask them

[TwiPire10]

The Neutron Stars collided because they were trying to create something as spectacular as Matt Bellamy!

[cleo188881]

Muse IS a star. they are gods. They control Supermassive Black Holes and Neutron Star Collisions as well as Dead Stars.

[benficagurl14]

MUSE

[hcvideoproductions]

MUSE!!!!

[09AZ311]

a nice and an accurate video that shows two neutrons star that merge together (emitting lots of gravity and radio waves) then forms into a black hole.

I ADMIRE THAT ANIMATION

[bweazel]

Looks like a galaxy. Hmmmm

[RythymJunkie]

Do you also have a video showing what happens when two leprechauns collide?

Do they turn into a rapidly rotating humpty dumpty?

Nonsense very often has an exciting edge!

Its impossible to prove any of these theories so the scientists can say just what they like about the cosmos and nobody can ever prove them wrong. What a wonderfully powerful position they hold! Answer this, if the universe were closed and collapsed into a huge black hole, where would the singularity be?

[Diginerd0]

I think you should join the church of the flying spaghetti monster.

[ghabal]

@RythymJunkie

Way to be rhetorical. Of course you can't just hop on a neutron star and see what happens, but the physics that they apply to these simulations are the same physics that determine what happens around us all the time. It's is a small, and logically sound step to these assumptions. Maybe you should get off the rhythm and get on some science.

[jsf01974]

Shouldn't it turn into a black hole at the end? Totally dark?

[Aletheophile]

Yes, as the stars get very close they will rip each other apart tidally, releasing HUGE amounts of energy, and the 2 streams of super heated matter, spiralling around close to the speed of light will blaze like a supernova for just a few seconds before an event horizon forms around them, traping all the remaining energy in a single, rapidly rotating black hole.

[guicapone2]

is there enough energy to power up a light bulb?

[FatalFist]

I don't think they "merge" it's more like they smack heavily in less than what-ever they have it calculated it out to be. Two objects don't merge... when people stand close to one another, they don't fuse into one. :P (well there's sex but even then all I gotta do is pull out >.>)

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

people are not stars

stars are fluid objects with enormous masses. thos both stars actually would circle each other. Remember every neutronstar has the size of Manhattan, and in that dimension a full turn would be with about 100000 km/h or more.

that are enormous speeds and cenrivugal forces pulling the stars appart, combined with the immense pull of each others gravity.

[FatalFist]

It's not really even a state of fluid. The things are so dense that there's not much room to expand it's more like downright solid rock that's gravity is so immense it tares apart everything down to the sub atomic level. But both neutron stars competing... I just don't they would merge... stars don't even do that. A Pulsar is a good example. (least I think it's the pulsar, two stars smack making a large explosion) I thought Neutronstars were bigger than dwarfs though.

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

Pulsars are Neutron Stars ;( that turn very fast, and have some dustclouds in their equatorial orbit, so that you can only see their light when their poles are pointing at you.

[cliftut]

@JheakrynaKyAlur No disrespect intended, but with so many complex and powerful forces at play I'm not sure you are in a position to say what would, or rather does happen in a case such as this. That's not to say the simulation is necessarily correct.

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

@cliftut

not?

well i've not calculated that, but it can be calculated.

and by that we have what we see up there.

that's the funny thing with math... if you know some variables... well you can calculate the others.

i love math ;(

[cliftut]

@JheakrynaKyAlur Yeah, math is fun to explore and learn. I wasn't saying your values about neutron stars were wrong. I thought you were saying that the simulation was wrong, and that the stars would actually just rotate around each other forever ("both stars actually would circle each other"), but it seems I might have misinterpreted. So you were just saying that in reality these stars would be rotating around each other extremely quickly?

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

@cliftut

yep, and sooner or later they most probably would merge just like in that simulation.

But this is about to take several million to billion years.

i doubt that their orbits can be stable enough to orbit each other for ever.

for ever is a very long time you know...

and just one mistake in the 40000th point after the comma, and zack - merging ;)

[Username93611]

@cliftut

Why do people who don't actually know a lick of real physics insist on talking as if they do? Neutron stars in close orbit around one another would not continue orbiting forever, because the system loses kinetic energy, radiated as gravitational waves.

[luigishotu]

@JheakrynaKyAlur think about the massive density that neutron stars specifically have: 1 cubic cm with the equivalent mass to that of Manhattan, resulting in immense gravitational forces overpowering that you talked about. That is what holds them together to fuse. Neutron stars are remains of stars that died and would have been BLACKHOLES if the star was big enough, not in these cases however.

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

@luigishotu

and what exactly are you telling me that i didn't already know, or put into my thinking while writing that post you refer to?

pls, don't try to be smartass when you actually don't have much to tell.

[JheakrynaKyAlur]

@primeguy84

must be coz it's true :)

disprove me if you can.

till then, i have to say that your comment is something like... the most stupid thing i've ever read.

It has nothing to contribute to the discussion, as i made the comment, and is nothing more than an insult.

so well - yes, you have to feel stupid for making it :)

maybe you want to apologize and feel less stupid, but i guess that doesn't go well with your point of view of yourself in this universe ;D



[smithnya]

Maybe at such high gravitation all bets are off.

[FatalFist]

That's pretty much what it it's about. I suppose it's possible though that one could destroy the other and seemingly "merge" but it's not going to be like two droplets on a bench...

[dongmingfei]

i can't understand!

[chainsaw745]

well both star try to suck energy out of eachother then well... uh??? idk im not that smart lmao

[blobrana]

Cool