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To: EagleUSA
>>>>amplifies the insignificance of our planet's size, and even the energy of our sun.<<<<


True dat. This thing could swallow a million of our Suns and not skip a beat. It wouldn't even grow in diameter.

You know, a pulsar is probably the closest thing to a black hole. One single drop of pulsar material is so dense, it equals the mass of every single person on earth. You would have to take all of humanity and crush us until we fit into that single drop no bigger than a pea.

Black hole scan devour pulsars without knowing it.
5 posted on 04/27/2006 12:46:24 PM PDT by HOTTIEBOY (AIXELSYD TAEB I)
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To: HOTTIEBOY

Black hole scan devour pulsars without knowing it.
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Yes, it is difficult to imagine that kind of mass and gravity. Gravity so intense, light energy cannot get away from it...


6 posted on 04/27/2006 12:48:54 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: HOTTIEBOY
A good way to describe a pulsar is a failed black hole. A pulsar is the end product of a process that wasn't massive enough to create a black hole. Both are created by supernovae, only that Pulsars are measured to have masses of a solar mass or two, while a black hole is something much more massive, 3 solar masses or larger.

Generally, if you add another sun's mass to a pulsar, chances are the end product has so much gravitational pull that light can't escape and the thing becomes a black hole.

8 posted on 04/27/2006 1:29:24 PM PDT by ThinkPlease (Fortune Favors the Bold!)
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