3 ms·

It would be like a pinhole leak. A large enough container can maintain pressure even with a few small holes letting the contents slowly stream out.

• joot82 3y ago
  it would only be a pinhole at first, though start to grow quite rapidly(? no idea in what time scale?) and at some point consume the sun quite violently from within, no?
  • pdonis 3y ago
    > no idea in what time scale? The numerical simulations in the paper go on for a time on the order of the Sun's hydrodynamic time scale, which is tens of millions of years. After that time has elapsed, yes, the star could be completely consumed by the hole.
    • hinkley 3y ago
      Tens of millions is off by more than two orders of magnitude, isn’t it?
      • pdonis 3y ago
        The hydrodynamic time scale is not the same as the age of the Sun.