When Neutron Stars Collide.
When Neutron Stars Collide, the explosion can produce up to a billion times the energy of the luminosity of the Milky Way.
It could easily outshine entire monster galaxies like the Andromeda for the 50 seconds or so seconds it takes place. The event ejects matter at 60,000 km per second or 20% the speed of light.
This cosmic firework is called a kilonova, responsible for the heavy elements like Gold, Platinum and Uranium and some the brightest events in the Universe.
A neutron star merger is a type of stellar collision. It occurs in a fashion similar to the rare brand of type Ia supernovae resulting from merging white dwarfs.
When two neutron stars orbit each other closely, they spiral inward as time passes due to gravitational radiation. When the two neutron stars meet, their merger leads to the formation of either a more massive neutron star, or a black hole (depending on whether the mass of the remnant exceeds the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit).
The merger can also create a magnetic field that is trillions of times stronger than that of Earth in a matter of one or two milliseconds. These events are believed to create short gamma-ray bursts.
The mergers are also believed to produce kilonovae, which are transient sources of fairly isotropic longer wave electromagnetic radiation due to the radioactive decay of heavy r-process nuclei that are produced and ejected during the merger process.
It could easily outshine entire monster galaxies like the Andromeda for the 50 seconds or so seconds it takes place. The event ejects matter at 60,000 km per second or 20% the speed of light.
This cosmic firework is called a kilonova, responsible for the heavy elements like Gold, Platinum and Uranium and some the brightest events in the Universe.
A neutron star merger is a type of stellar collision. It occurs in a fashion similar to the rare brand of type Ia supernovae resulting from merging white dwarfs.
When two neutron stars orbit each other closely, they spiral inward as time passes due to gravitational radiation. When the two neutron stars meet, their merger leads to the formation of either a more massive neutron star, or a black hole (depending on whether the mass of the remnant exceeds the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit).
The merger can also create a magnetic field that is trillions of times stronger than that of Earth in a matter of one or two milliseconds. These events are believed to create short gamma-ray bursts.
The mergers are also believed to produce kilonovae, which are transient sources of fairly isotropic longer wave electromagnetic radiation due to the radioactive decay of heavy r-process nuclei that are produced and ejected during the merger process.
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