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Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars by Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro

Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro ebook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Page: 653
Format: djvu
ISBN: 0471873179, 9780471873174

I like that you included the actual masses at which stars will become either a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole. It is difficult compare the relative sizes of black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, the Sun, and red supergiants on the same sheet of paper. Stars all begin life the same way but the end of the life cycle of a star is the interesting part. They are much more dense than white dwarfs. Comparison of the Sizes of Stellar Remnants. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants – black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs – collided and merged together. These are produced by normal stars feeding material onto the compact, dense remains of stars that have reached the end of their evolutionary trail – white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. One spoonful of a neutron star would weigh about 1 billion tons. When stars die, the distribution of remnant masses would be expected to be continuous from white dwarfs through neutron stars to black holes, ranging from a fraction of our sun's mass to nearly 100 solar masses. Depending on many different variables a star can end up as a white dwarf, neutron star, or a black hole. I definitely needed a refresher on star life cycles since I took Intro Astronomy a few years ago. In between black holes and white dwarfs are objects called neutron stars. An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. While nothing in the universe just evaporates into emptiness, lets stop the process there and say we can call the time of death at these end points: White dwarf, neutron star, and black hole. Their size differences are so vast.