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Can a black hole be inside a star?
Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.)
Can a star stop a black hole?
If a star is near to a black hole, it will be pulled in by the gravity and may eventually be dragged past the point of no return and sucked into the black hole. But the black hole isn’t sustained by the matter it absorbs, and nothing will happen to it if it runs out of things to swallow.
What happens to stars when they get sucked into a black hole?
The black hole immediately swallows half the star’s matter while the rest arcs away in long streamers. These rapidly fall back and settle into an accretion disk that steadily feeds material into the black hole, growing so hot that it emits copious x-rays.
Does a quasi Star exist?
Quasi-stars are larger than any stars we’ve ever discovered. They tower not only above our sun — which, despite making up over 99\% of the Solar System’s mass is only a yellow dwarf — but they overshadow all other dwarf stars, giant stars, supergiant stars, and even the impressive hypergiants.
Can black holes swallow planets?
Answer: Black Holes swallow anything that gets trapped in its voracious gravitational pull. Stars, gas, dust, planets, moons, etc. can all be swallowed by a Black Hole.
What is a quasi black hole?
A quasi-star (also called black hole star) is a hypothetical type of extremely massive and luminous star that may have existed early in the history of the Universe.
What happens when a star turns into a black hole?
If the core is larger, it will collapse into a black hole. To turn into a neutron star, a star must start with about 7 to 20 times the mass of the Sun before the supernova. Only stars with more than 20 times the mass of the Sun will become black holes.
Did a star survive a brush with a giant black hole?
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush with a giant black hole and lived to tell the tale through exclamations of X-rays.
What happens to a red giant when it falls into a black hole?
Once the red giant was captured by the black hole’s gravity, the outer layers of the star containing hydrogen were stripped off and careened toward the black hole, leaving the core of the star—known as a white dwarf—behind.
How big is the black hole in our galaxy?
The black hole, located in a galaxy called GSN 069, has a mass about 400,000 times that of the Sun, putting it on the small end of the scale for supermassive black holes.