chasil 3 days ago

How can a remnant star be produced when the combined mass exceeds the Chandrasakar limit?

It seems from the wiki that there is no actual collision. This seems to be something between a nova and a supernova.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_Iax_supernova

  • pfdietz 3 days ago

    Presumably the explosion ejects enough material to bring the remnant below the limit. Or, possibly, rotation allows the remnant to not immediately collapse (the Chandrasekar limit is for a nonrotating body, although I understand the increase for a rapidly rotating star is only a few percent.)

ck2 3 days ago

I don't know how this would be done but I've often wished there was

space .ycombinator .com

(or spacetime .ycombinator .com)

Since there's no tagging, maybe a specially crafted search result

ie. (NASA, JAXA, IRSO, moon, satellite, space, telescope, hubble, voyager, supernova, etc.)