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So they hypothesize it either collapsed to a black hole without supernova or stopped fusion. They don't mention it might just might have been swallowed by black hole.
Wouldn't that be a slow process?
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Wouldn't that be a slow process?
That is my impression also. Stars/objects being swallowed by black holes tend to emit a large amount of radiation as it happens, over longer periods. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I would expect the thing to be over rather swiftly, albeit probably with some accretion disc still generating some radiation.
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If you are into these kinds of mysteries, I highly recommend reading Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. (even more so if you want to spend a few days reading this epic space opera)
Warning: he writes huge tomes. They're far too long. The first I read was fun, the second a slog. There won't be a third.
However, I absolutely love the Night's Dawn Trilogy and re-read it once every few years. I think I read it at an impressionable age and it really stuck.
One could also consider reading Charles Stross' "Accelerando" which has plenty of stuff about dyson swarms.
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IANAP and this could be a bit of a stretch, but could the disappearance of the star been caused by the completion of a Dyson sphere around it?
If you are into these kinds of mysteries, I highly recommend reading Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton. (even more so if you want to spend a few days reading this epic space opera)
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Could you point to any laymanish articles or media that talks about the non-supernova fate? My knowledge about supernovae, black holes and neutron stars all come from youtube channels ( eg. https://youtu.be/RZkR9zdUv-E ) and they make it sound like inevitable ends for massive stars, because once the neutron star forms the sudden vacuum created by the compacted neutrons makes all the matter around it collapse on it an…
It’s totally plausible. But if the core of your star is sufficiently massive then the initial collapse takes it over the Chandrasekhar limit & it forms a black hole immediately. Then the rest of the stellar material just falls into it. The fine details vary depending on mass, composition & spin of the rest of the material: if the star is spinning fast enough an accretion disk might form and drive jets which is one po…
Spherical chickens in a vacuum. This would be true of a non-spinning black hole. In reality they all spin. The star was spinning before collapse. So a tiny amount quietly falls in, but the bulk of the outer shell quickly accelerates, energizes, jets form and generally the massive releases of energy blasts material away.
Sounds like "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton.
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IANAP and this could be a bit of a stretch, but could the disappearance of the star been caused by the completion of a Dyson sphere around it?
It would be; first, spheres are unrealistic because of the stresses involved, so you'd be looking at a dyson swarm instead, and second, (and this is with sci-fi glasses on), even advanced civilizations would need many years to build one, so there would be a gradual fading instead.
At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears.
Lets hope its not the [[SPOILER]]
Sounds like "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton.