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2 Neutron Stars Merge & form a Black Hole

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Uploaded by on Aug 9, 2007

Two neutron stars, each with 1.4 times the mass of the sun, merge and immediately form a black hole. In this simulation, this amount of mass is too great to withstand the crush to a black hole because the neutron star material is not stiff enough. Colors indicate (logarithm of) density.
Video courtesy of M. Shibata, Univ. of Tokyo.

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