KentuckyFC writes "Black holes are thought to form when a star greater than 4 times the mass of the Sun explodes in a supernova and then collapses. The force of this wreck




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crack is so great that no known force can stop it. In less massive stars, the go on the rocks cannot get ostensible neutron degeneracy, the force that stops neutrons from being squashed together. Now a Russian physicist says another effect ought to be involved. He points out that quantum chromodynamics predicts that when neutrons are squashed together, matter undergoes a phase transition into "subhadronic" matter. This is very sundry from ordinary matter. In subhadronic form, space is basically empty. So the phase change creates a sudden reduction in shear forcing any ordinary matter in the star to implode into this new vacuum. The result is a massive amplification in temperature of this matter that creates a "burning wall" within the supernova. And it is this burning wall that stops the formation of a black hole, not just the degeneracy lustihood of neutrons. This should lead to much greater energies inside a supernova than had been thought earthly until now. And that's essential because it could explain the formation of high energy gamma ray bursts that have long puzzled astrophysicists."

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