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Jebusfreek666 OP t1_j283emb wrote

Reply to comment by Xethinus in Why can't we observe the formation of a black hole? by Jebusfreek666

>but the closest neutron star collisions are outside of our galaxy.

Those must just be the closest ones we have so far detected right? There is no reason our galaxy is different to the others. We should be able to locate something a little closer I think. Heck, maybe in the future we could actually cause the transformation to happen by artificially increasing the mass of the neutron star via a particle beam or some other tech...

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Xethinus t1_j2848ur wrote

I don't know how easy neutron stars are to find. I also don't know how easy binary neutron star systems are to find.

I do know we've been getting gravitational waves from all across the universe every few days from neutron star collisions and black hole mergers for the last few years. But that is a sample size of billions of cubic light-years of space. We're talking trillions of galaxies. A typical galaxy does not have a neutron star or black hole formation in any predictable way. I refer to the milkdromeda galactic merge for the most likely next neutron star collision anytime soon.

Now... engineering a black hole? That's bonkers. I would pay to see that. Someone get kurtzgesagt on that. Would become one of the most extreme science experiments possible.

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