Black holes and neutron stars are two amazing objects in space, formed from the death of massive stars. Describe how each one forms and explain the main differences between them. Focus on their size, density, and gravity. Also, mention how ...
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- Autonomous Navigation: AI can be used to create autonomous navigation systems that allow spacecraft to navigate through space, avoid obstacles, and adapt to changing environments without constant human intervention.
- Data Analysis: Machine learning algorithms can analyze vast amounts of data collected from space missions quickly and accurately, identifying patterns, trends, and anomalies that humans might miss.
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By leveraging AI and machine learning in these areas, space exploration missions can become more efficient, reduce human error, and uncover insights that enhance our understanding of the universe.
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Both amazing space objects as we know are formed by collapse of a massive star under it's own gravitational forces the only major difference is that a neutron star is formed when a star collapses 14 to 25 times of mass of our sun while a blackhole is formed when a star more than 25 times of mass ofRead more
Both amazing space objects as we know are formed by collapse of a massive star under it’s own gravitational forces the only major difference is that a neutron star is formed when a star collapses 14 to 25 times of mass of our sun while a blackhole is formed when a star more than 25 times of mass of our sun collapses under it’s own gravity after it goes supernova. Another logical observable difference between them is their ability to let escape the light. While both objects are few of the dense objects present around in space obviously with strong gravitational fields, Neutron stars unlike Blackholes do not have strong enough gravitational pull resulting in, escape of light. This is due to the mass concentrated at their cores in case of Blackholes it’s called “singularity”. Current theories state a singularity has infinite mass while a neutron star finite mass compacted in very less volume making it dense. As we know the relation between density, mass and volume. More the density more the mass, but less the volume or more mass in less volume results in higher density and here as a neutron star holds lot of mass compressed in very tiny volume making it super dense and on other hand Blackhole having theoretically infinite mass in a very less volume, it is super duper dense.
As for how astronomers identify them , there are plenty of methods for that purposes but easily said Neutron stars are pulsing stars and are pretty bright so they are pretty observable as other stars. As for Blackhole they are hard to detect like finding any other object in space. But they can be found by observing their effect on surrounding matter in space most notably their effect on light as their strong gravity can bend light and their accretion disk.
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