So apart from completing the set, why does this latest collision matter? It is because, according to current theories and past observations, neutron stars tend to be found with - and collide into - other neutron stars. And the same should be true of black holes. In fact, there are factors which reduce the chances of the two distinct objects being found together.
But the two neutron star-black hole collisions, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, may challenge that received wisdom. Instead, it may lean towards another suite of theories, which assume that black holes and neutron stars are indeed found alongside each other.
These alternative theories imply that stars and galaxies formed in different ways to the picture painted by standard views of how the cosmos formed. For example, over billions of years, stars have produced many of the building blocks from which larger cosmic structures - such as planets and galaxies - are formed. The production within stars of so-called heavy elements - such as iron, carbon and oxygen - is related to the proportion of black holes and neutron star pairs in the Universe.
The force with which stars push out the material inside them when they explode is also related to this proportion of black hole and neutron star pairs. In conclusion, the new finding suggests that stars produce fewer heavy elements and push them out with less force than previously thought, which, in turn, has implications for real-world observations of the Universe.
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As the surface of the star nears an imaginary surface called the "event horizon," time on the star slows relative to the time kept by observers far away. When the surface reaches the event horizon, time stands still, and the star can collapse no more - it is a frozen collapsing object.
Even bigger black holes can result from stellar collisions. Soon after its launch in December , NASA's Swift telescope observed the powerful, fleeting flashes of light known as gamma ray bursts. Chandra and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope later collected data from the event's "afterglow," and together the observations led astronomers to conclude that the powerful explosions can result when a black hole and a neutron star collide, producing another black hole.
Although the basic formation process is understood, one perennial mystery in the science of black holes is that they appear to exist on two radically different size scales. On the one end, there are the countless black holes that are the remnants of massive stars. Peppered throughout the Universe, these "stellar mass" black holes are generally 10 to 24 times as massive as the Sun. Astronomers spot them when another star draws near enough for some of the matter surrounding it to be snared by the black hole's gravity, churning out x-rays in the process.
Most stellar black holes, however, are very difficult to detect. Judging from the number of stars large enough to produce such black holes, however, scientists estimate that there are as many as ten million to a billion such black holes in the Milky Way alone. On the other end of the size spectrum are the giants known as "supermassive" black holes, which are millions, if not billions, of times as massive as the Sun.
Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes lie at the center of virtually all large galaxies, even our own Milky Way. Astronomers can detect them by watching for their effects on nearby stars and gas. In pulsars, this takes the form of extremely regular pulses of radiation synchronized with the rotation period of the neutron star. These pulses can be used to study the neutron star itself, but also any object between Earth and the pulsar interfering with this regular emission.
In magnetars, extreme magnetic fields cause bursts of high-energy radiation observed by gamma-ray and X-ray telescopes. Properly modeling and understanding these systems and their emission is a complex physical problem in which CITA scientists are deeply involved. Some black holes and neutron stars can also form binary systems.
According to general relativity, these binaries slowly spiral in through the emission of gravitational waves — ripples of spacetime, which carry away energy and angular momentum. This effect, which can eventually lead to the merger of the two objects, has until now only been indirectly observed in the slow evolution of the separation between two pulsars.
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