Re: Two neutron stars on a collision course?

On 2008-03-09, Matt Browne SFW <matt.h.browne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> If so, this would be an interesting stellar cycle beginning with the
> fusion of hydrogen all the way to iron, then iron via a neutron star
> gets converted back to hydrogen. A wonderful cosmic cycle.

Most of the matter will just end up in the singularity of a black
hole.  Of the comparatively tiny amount of matter that escapes, I
expect most will decay to hydrogen.  It's not much of a cycle if most
of the matter disappears each time round.


- Tim