https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/19/red-hot-vacuum/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/19/red-hot-vacuum/#comment-6009 Sat, 24 Mar 2018 04:02:53 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4809#comment-6009 Another article says – “In terms of sheer mass, the top spot goes to R136a1, a star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, some 163,000 light-years away. It is believed that this star may contain as much as 315 times the mass of the Sun, which presents a conundrum to astronomers since it was believed that the largest stars could only contain 150 solar masses. The answer to this is that R136a1 was probably formed when several massive stars merged together. Needless to say, R136a1 is set to detonate as a hypernova, any day now.”

]]> https://briankoberlein.com/2015/05/19/red-hot-vacuum/#comment-2368 Tue, 19 May 2015 19:53:43 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=4809#comment-2368 Brian,
Very interesting… certainly one would expect a main sequence star in the throws of Red Giant expansion must decrease in density – but your computations which show it essentially the same as a reasonable vacuum is just amazing. Thanks for your post.

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