Impossible Objects II: Extreme Objects
Today, we will be focusing on black widow pulsars, boson stars, and white holes. These objects are considered insane, impossible, and theoretical, and are scientifically interesting to study.
Black Widow Pulsars:
Black Widow Pulsars are like cosmic theifs. They steal from failed stars, white dwarfs, and sometimes even giants, such as red giants and red supergiants. Take, for example, PSR J1947 1120. It is a star in its current orbit with a red giant known as a “recycled millisecond pulsar,” which completes a rotation at about 2.24 milliseconds after a first one. This is known to be in an estimated ten-day orbit. That means each time it takes 10.3 days to orbit the star.
Boson Stars
Boson stars are incredible, invisible monsters in our night sky. They can only be noticed by their gravitational impact on our night sky. To learn about boson stars, you must know what boson stars are. Boson stars are invisible clouds of atoms that can have 2 things in the same place at the same time. For example, gold can not be in the same place as wood. Scientifically, this is called the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The Pauli Exclusion Principle basically says that 2 or more atoms can not be in the same place at the same time. But bosons can change all of that. Bosons can be in the same place at the same time. Also, it is like a gas because particles can pass through it without colliding. This is like how we pass through air without getting hurt.
White Holes
White holes are like black hole’s oppisite. For example, they have similarities to black holes, but they are opposite. For example, relating to the wormhole theory, white holes are black holes after a long, long time. Theoretically, they are results of a bounce from a black hole to a white hole. Let’s say that the black hole has a singularity and someone falls in. According to the wormhole theory, the matter will fall into and exit out a white hole.
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