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If two neutron stars collided would there be high density "chunks" left over?

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What might happen if two neutron stars had a high energy collision? What would the "fragmented" debris look like?

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  1. The gravity at the point of collision would be far to intense

    for any "chunks" to escape.

    You'd get a larger, hotter neutron star or a black hole.


  2. Do some reading on gamma ray bursters - colliding neutron stars is one of the current theories to explain them.  

  3. The fragmented matter would probably force itself into a sphere, that is, if all the debris doesn't fall back into itself (which is certain).

  4. I doubt there would be much, if any debris left from the collision of two neutron stars, whose combined mass would collapse at once into a black hole. Any debris from the collision would likely be swallowed immediately.

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