Vice is now a source of trusted astronomy news?
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…or maybe it’s night-time there?
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“Mmmmh, lost a star, master Obi Wan has. How embarrasing.”
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Somewhere in Tibet, in a hidden lamasery, monks are pasting the last of the nine billion names of God into their holy books.
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Yeah, you should make one.
Hellstar Remina ate it.
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Wait, is this a mystery? Maybe I’m out of date, but here’s what I learned a while ago: If a star is supermassive, the core will collapse into a black hole post-haste and the rest of the star should follow suit, hypothetically.
A supernova happens because there’s a remnant (a bunch of neutrons) that resists collapse… the infalling matter from outside the core compresses this remnant, the remnant resists collapse and the matter falling in bounces off, sending a shockwave through the rest of the stuff falling in => supernova. It’s possible this remnant collapses into a black hole if the pressure is great enough or survives as a neutron star.
But if the core is big enough, there’s no remnant, it should just collapse into a black hole… the rest of the star would just fall into it and, since there’s nothing to bounce off of, there would be no shockwave, no supernova; it’d just implode and not be there any more.
You have seen that scene from ‘Mars Attacks’, right?
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The validity of the Dark Forest Theory increases…
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Nice reference 
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The answer to this can be found in The Threshold Series by Peter Clines. 
I would expect there would be an accretion disk and associated release of energy.
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A lot can happen in fou… ten years.
This entire topic is full of win.
Thank you for collectively brightening our skies at a time where things are looking dimmer by the day…
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I see the Culture has decided to go on the offensive against the Idirans…
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Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole
They believe there are two possible explanations behind the star’s disappearance. The boring answer is that, well, it has simply transformed into a dimmer star due to matter loss that’s causing it to be obscured by dust. Or, perhaps, the giant star has collapsed into a black hole without go supernova first, which sounds fantastic but isn’t unknown.
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Did anyone think to look behind the cushions on the sofa? It,s amazing what you can find back there sometimes - enough loose coins for a happy meal, that vital lego piece, lost jigsaw pieces, super massive stars …
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The sofa? You wouldn’t believe the stuff that people leave in cars that get handed back at the end of a lease, I’ll be looking for something like this in cars that I deal with in future; it’ll make a nice conversation piece in my lounge…
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