Our Galaxy Could Be Evaporating As Dead Stars Flee The Milky Way

A recent study in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has come up with a model that could locate stellar relics like stellar black holes even though we haven't detected enough of them to produce an observed map of their general location. They also said that our Galaxy could be evaporating as they try to flee the Milky Way.

Even the most dazzling stars eventually pass away. In actuality, the stars with the brightest light also have the shortest lifespans.

Within a few million years, they exhaust all of their hydrogen, which causes them to erupt as bright supernovae. Their remaining cores disintegrate into neutron stars or black holes. Like a cosmic cemetery, these little, black particles are strewn around our galaxy.

It is challenging to find stellar black holes and neutron stars. Since neutron stars are just fifteen kilometres across, they are often missed unless their magnetic poles are aligned to allow us to observe them as pulsars.

Size of a neutro...

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