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Birth of Black Hole Possibly Being Observed

Posted by michael on from the hole-in-the-middle-of-it-all dept.

TheTXLibra writes "Robert Roy Britt reports on Space.com that we may now be witnessing the earliest stages of black hole development. Star SN 1986J, began to collapse in 1983 into a neutron star, resulting in a supernova explosion in 1986. If the mass of the neutron star reaches 1.4 times the mass of Earth's Sun, it will theoretically collapse into a black hole, if not, it will stabilize as a neutron star."

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  1. Re:Not quite accurate. by Hungus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cheers, though emailing me woiuld have saved many many more bytes :)

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