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I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from
by larubbio 13y ago
I wished the article went into more detail about how it could form. My hazy memory of astronomy from college, I thought matter falling onto a neutron star from a companion star was how a type IIa supernova occurred. How would the neutron star be "swallowed" without triggering the nova?
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoI am not sure if we understand formation process of such stellar objects in general (Or possibly many processes). According to wikipedia one theory is slow orbit degradation of binary system containing neutron star and red dwarf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_object http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorne%E2%80%93%C5%BBytkow_obje... This makes me want to see a simulation of this happening.