“Nature has a harder time making black holes than previously thought.” This opinion is molded as a very massive star collapsed to form a neutron star and not a black hole as anticipated. This new results originated from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Scientists found a dense whirling ball of neutrons about 12 miles in diameter in an extremely young star cluster — the neutron star. To deduce that the parent star of this neutron star was at least 40 times the mass of the sun, astronomers were able to use well-determined properties of other stars in the cluster. According to scientists, when very massive stars make neutron stars and not black holes, they will have a greater influence on the composition of future generations of stars. When the star collapses to form the neutron star, more than 95 percent of its mass is returned to the space around it. Much of mass is metal-rich material from its core.
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Massive Star Collapses to Form Neutron Star, -- Not Black Hole
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