Starship Asterisk*

(...) If it can't reduce its fusion quickly enough, its production of energy may overwhelm its rapidly shrinking gravity. The star will simply go pop. That's right, degenerate materials at high temperatures would be at the star core, so that would be a tremendous amount of energy just waiting to do...

Nice one. Just wondering if my understanding is correct(...) You are absolutely correct. What is occurring at 0:16? It looks like the integrity of the star suddenly fails, like a balloon popping. Is that the core of the star being ejected? It looks almost as if the outer layers were yanked away lea...

I was surprized to see the Einstein ring keeping turning even after the complete absorption of the smaller black hole. I would tend to think that, given that (as madtom pointed out) gravitational information travels at c, once no perturbation is noticeable in the remaining event horizon (i.e the sma...