Who you callin' a dwarf, sucka?
Posted on 05/18/2021 4:43:32 PM PDT by Sawdring
“Black dwarf supernovae”. They sound quite dramatic! And indeed, they may be the last really exciting events in the Universe.
It’s too early to be sure. There could be plenty of things about astrophysics we don’t understand yet—and intelligent life may throw up surprises even in the very far future. But there’s a nice scenario here:
• M. E. Caplan, Black dwarf supernova in the far future, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 497 (2020), 4357–4362.
First, let me set the stage. What happens in the short run: say, the first 1023 years or so?
For a while, galaxies will keep colliding. These collisions seem to destroy spiral galaxies: they fuse into bigger elliptical galaxies. We can already see this happening here and there—and our own Milky Way may have a near collision with Andromeda in only 3.85 billion years or so, well before the Sun becomes a red giant. If this happens, a bunch of new stars will be born from the shock waves due to colliding interstellar gas.
Who you callin' a dwarf, sucka?
“Short People got
No reason..”
10 to the 36,000 years is quite far into the future, I bet the Tardus hasn’t even traveled that far.
The Tardis, before Dr Who jumped the shark, traveled to the very beginning and the very end of this universe - as well as traveling to other universes.
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‘m more concerned about a much more local micronova...
I’m going with,
“Interstellar Gas”
for 100,
Please.
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