8 ms·
Am I reading wrong, or is no remnant in the middle of a black hole formation region? It looks like “direct black hole” is on both sides of “no remnants”.
by FakeComments 7y ago
Am I reading wrong, or is no remnant in the middle of a black hole formation region?
It looks like “direct black hole” is on both sides of “no remnants”.
- wallace_f 7y agoI guess on both sides they start out as star -> collapse, but one either side the collapse continues into a hole. Within those parameters the star will stop collapsing and go supernova and never collapse back. I guess that's what it means.
- _Microft 7y agoYes, this most likely just means that different processes are responsible for the same outcome (i.e. becoming a blackhole), depending on the mass of the star. Edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova#250_solar_masses_or_more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova#250...