What happens when to neutron stars colide at high speed.?

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What happens when to neutron stars colide at high speed.?

Answer 1

When two neutron stars merge, the result is dependent on the masses and the angular momentum.

If the masses are insufficient to form a black hole, and the angular momentum of the colision is high enough, you'll form one large, fast rotating neutron star - a large pulsar or even a magnetar.

If the angular momentum is close to 0, though, you'll wind with up with a large neutron star and a burst of X-Rays bright enough to kill most of the neighborhood for 10 light years or so.

Either way, if you're close it would REALLY ruin your day...

Answer 2

when the stars colide it will make a large shockwave probly destroying anything with 15 light years.

Answer 3

You will have the other of all fission bombs.

Answer 4

When this is all boiled down, it appears that the collision of 2 neutron stars happens within a few milliseconds, emits a burst of radiation, and the two merge into one.

"Systems of orbiting neutron stars are born when the cores of two old stars collapse in supernova explosions. Neutron stars have the mass of our Sun but are the size of a city, so dense that boundaries between atoms disappear. Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that the orbit shrinks from ripples of space-time called gravitational waves. After about 1 billion simulation years, the two neutron stars closely circle each other at 60,000 revolutions per minute. The stars finally merge in a few milliseconds, sending out a burst of gravitational waves."

"Two billion years and 25 days ago, an event destined to be a watershed in the astronomical community took place in a distant galaxy ? a blast of gamma rays lasting a mere a thirtieth of a second. The aptly-named Swift observatory 'saw' the gammas with its Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) instrument, worked out roughly where they were coming from, and turned its X-ray and UV telescopes. The international GCN (GRB Coordinates Network) lit up with notices from observatories all over the world (and out in space), reporting what they found when they looked there. Data came in from Namibia, the Canaries, continental US, Chile, India, the Netherlands, and above all Hawaii. The world?s leading optical telescopes, the VLT, the Kecks, Gemini, Subaru, all swung into action; the electromagnetic spectrum was covered from extremely high energy gammas to the radio.

Before GRB050509b, astronomers were leaning towards the theory that long-soft GRBs are core-collapse supernovae (collapsars). While there have been dozens of theoretical papers published on what short-hard GRBs might be, only three scenarios seemed to fit the gamma ray data ? the merger (or collision) of a neutron star with another (or a black hole), a giant flare from a magnetar (a ?starquake? in an intensely magnetic neutron star), or some variation on the collapsar theme."

"there is now observational support for the hypothesis that short-hard bursts arise during the merger of a compact binary (two neutron stars, or a neutron star and a black hole)."

Answer 5

when neutron stars colide at a high speed big exsplosions occurr..... some scientist even believe that the end of the world will be caused by a big exsplosion produced by neutron stars