NASA Discovers a Super Heavy Neutron Before its Collapse into a Black Hole: Here’s More About it

NASA has discovered a Super Heavy Neutron before it collapsed into a Black Hole.

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NASA Discovers a Super Heavy Neutron

Astronomers who studies about the archival observations of the powerful explosions termed as Short Gamma-Ray Bursts or in short GRBs, has recently discovered light patterns which indicates of the possible existence of a Super Heavy Neutron Star just before its collapse into a Black Hole. It is considered that the Super Heavy Neutron was formed by the collision of two Neutron Stars.

A Neutron Star is formed when the fuel runs out in the core of a massive star, which then collapses. The collapse creates shock waves which blows away what is left of the star in a supernova explosion. Typically a Neutron Star has more mass than the Sun itself but when its reaches above a certain mass, they would collapse into Black Holes.

Cecilia Chirenti, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and at the University of Maryland, College Park said that the research was carried out by looking into 700 short Gamma-Ray Bursts detected using the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory of NASA, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and the Fermi Gamma Ray Space telescope.

The findings of the research was later presented at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle. They also mentioned that the Gamma-Ray patterns were found in two bursts which were observed in the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory in the early 1990s.

The results of the research was also published in a paper in the scientific journal, Nature on the 9th of January 2023