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Imagine what an object would look like teetering on that limit, a tiny mote of frozen hydrogen touches down, and now it's over the max, and FOOOOOOOOP the inwar
by milesward 6y ago
Imagine what an object would look like teetering on that limit, a tiny mote of frozen hydrogen touches down, and now it's over the max, and FOOOOOOOOP the inwards collapse begins...
- pdonis 6y agoFor white dwarfs, at least, this process is one possible way to trigger a supernova--a white dwarf right at the limit accretes some more mass and collapses catastrophically; the collapse triggers a supernova explosion.