Friday, July 12, 2013

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


Stellar monsters do not collide: No hope for a spectacular catastrophe

Posted: 11 Jul 2013 07:31 AM PDT

One might expect that collisions between the remains of monstrous stars, with masses reaching 200-300 times that of our Sun, would be among the most spectacular phenomena in the Universe. Perhaps they are, but we will unfortunately probably never have the chance to find out. Astrophysicists have discovered that the first such collisions will not occur until billions of years from now.

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