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The standard candles are Type Ia supernova which are when white dwarfs exceed the Chandrasekhar mass and become neutron stars. It is thought that when neutron
by splat 13y ago
The standard candles are Type Ia supernova which are when white dwarfs exceed the Chandrasekhar mass and become neutron stars. It is thought that when neutron stars exceed the maximum mass of a neutron star (which is not well known, by the way) they form a gamma-ray burst.
- kevinastone 13y agoThe TOV Limit for those following at home. It's when the star's gravitational pressure exceeds neutron degeneracy pressure and collapses into a black hole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff_limit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff_limi...