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#536 - Dr Becky Smethurst - The Secret World Of Black Holes

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The Black Hole From a Neutron Star

There's multiple ways that a Black Hole could form. You have a large star that collapses in on itself when it's no longer got the energy to continue to support or to stop gravity from pushing it in. Another one is a neutron star, which is pretty big star, condenses down but then accumulates more matter over time. That must be a very interesting way to form a Black Hole because it's, there has to be a point at which is it, it's the straw that broke the camel's back.

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