Milky Way Documentary

[AnthroHeart]

Here's some fascinating information about what happens when two neutron stars collide. I am amazed at the amount of kinetic energy in there.

"What happens during the collision?

This movie shows the results of a supercomputer simulation of what might happen when two neutron stars in a binary system collide. By the time they hit each other, they're traveling at nearly the speed of light, and orbit each other a thousand times a second. According to the calculations, the two neutron stars merge together in less than a hundredth of a second and release more energy during that time than our Sun would in ten billion years!"

http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/resourc...06neutcoll