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Gregory

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Brown Giants
« on: December 03, 2023, 07:29:01 PM »
I was experimenting on a sim of the largest known stars, and when some of them collided, they lost enough mass to the point of having the properties of brown dwarves, but still maintaining giant star sizes.
This most likely opened up a hypothetical concept of the existence of brown giants.

I even realized not only can you make one with supernovae or hypernovae, but also by simply reducing the mass to less than that of true stellar mass while keeping its size large.

If we ever found any, it would most likely be a history-changing discovery changing the way we study stars and their formation.

So far, we've only seen this happen on US2, so such a discovery of these in reality would be a game changer.
« Last Edit: December 03, 2023, 07:53:37 PM by Gregory »

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Re: Brown Giants
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2024, 12:47:48 PM »
The universe is a big place. A 'brown giant' could exist, but there's no way to 100% prove it. Space is home to some weird physics so anything is possible. Now you've got my imagination going. Pondering these things is good way to have a bout of existentialism. 🤣