Sunday, 2 January 2011

How can a supernova affect black hole in a binary system?

The likely result would either be a black hole-black hole binary system; a neutron star-black hole binary system, or the black hole and the compact remnant from the second supernova explosion would go their separate ways at reasonably high speeds.



You cannot disrupt a black hole in this way. In fact all that will happen to the original black hole is that it will likely get a bit more massive from accreting some of the supernova ejecta.

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