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Uploaded by on Aug 8, 2007

When the core of a massive star collapses, a supernova explosion occurs and the collapsed core forms an extremely compact, rapidly spinning neutron star. Some theories propose that the neutrons could dissolve into free quarks, causing the neutron star to shrink further and become a strange quark star. NASA has announced the detection of a possible strange quark star.
(Animation: CXC/D.Berry)

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  • Where's the kaboom?!? There was supposed to be an earthshattering kaboom!!

  • no boom :(

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  • @wallcrawler50 not trying to be a butt, but there is no atmosphere in space, so no sound! you cant hear anything in space is what im trying to say! but i agree.... this video isn't complete without it!

  • @MeowMrKitty no it could not. I'm interested to hear where you got that theory from as it goes against everthing I've ever read...

  • @MeowMrKitty No you are incorrect. Only stars of a certain mass have the gravitational forces needed to create a super nova explosion. Our sun is not one of these stars. The critical mass for super nova is roughly 4 times that of the sun. Our sun will collapse into a white dwarf, and then fade away into a black dwarf over time.

    When a super nova happens however, either a neutron star is left over, or if the star was massive enough, a black hole.

  • @LutonIrish10 and the mass of a star doesnt have to be 4 times greater than our sun to become a black hole. our sun accually could become a black hole at the end of its life whenever that would be

  • Um this is way wrong. Stars are made of gasses like heleum (srry about my spelling) and other gasses. when a star colapses it more comonly goes super nova and in a nutshell "explodes" there is no core ,or whatever that is, leftover

  • no sound in space

  • @LutonIrish10 Thats actually wrong. If a planet, by some strange unheard of means was forced down on it'self tightly enough and if it was made of heavy enough materials it would not form a star. A star's life begins from hydrogen fussion into helium. so unless there is hydrogen in the core it wouldn't become a star.

  • Just as I reached my climax it shrunk

  • I found it hard to masturbate to this, mainly because the lack of sound.

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