Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Royal Astronomical Society that suggest that two “compact stellar remnants” — which could be neutron stars, black holes or white dwarfs — collided and merged, resulting in a short-duration gamma-ray burst that hit Earth. For 16 years NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, RXTE to his friends, provided unprecedented views into the hearts of black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars. The term compact star (sometimes compact object) is used to refer collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, other exotic dense stars, and black holes. White dwarfs are the hot, dense leftover cores of ex-stars. The trio would thereby be sensitive to the gravitational waves produced by small, dense objects orbiting one another, objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars and, most excitingly, black holes. A journey of simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and Space and Time. Though, it is only a simulation, nothing more. This is the era where most of the mass in the universe is in the form of brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. We can't hope to create extremely strong gravity in the lab, so we need to look outwards into space for things like black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. Vocabulary to remember: nebula, protostar, hydrostatic equilibrium, thermonuclear reaction, main-sequence star, red giant, supernova, black holes, white dwarf, neutron star. We review the formation and evolution of compact binary stars consisting of white dwarfs (WDs), neutron stars (NSs), and black holes (BHs). An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars. When stars die, the distribution of remnant masses would be expected to be continuous from white dwarfs through neutron stars to black holes, ranging from a fraction of our sun's mass to nearly 100 solar masses. Black.holes.white.dwarfs.and.neutron.stars.pdf. These are produced by normal stars feeding material onto the compact, dense remains of stars that have reached the end of their evolutionary trail – white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. One of the assumptions was that there occurs an enormous emission of energy when black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs collide – the galactic fusion happens for just seconds, but it sends out a vast wave of radiation. Therefore, it is an ideal technique to study the galactic population of faint or dark objects, such as brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes and exoplanets.