Timeline for Killing a star safely
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 23:42 | comment | added | Keith McClary | Failed supernova "When the star can no longer support itself, the core collapses completely, forming a stellar-mass black hole, and consuming the nascent supernova without having the massive explosion. For a distant observer, the red supergiant star will seem to wink out of existence with little or no flare-up. The observed instances of these disappearances seem to involve supergiant stars with masses above 17 solar masses." Maybe with near magical science you could do this with 1 solar mass. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 21:13 | history | edited | SmugDoodleBug | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 21:04 | comment | added | theREALyumdub | @JRFerrell +1, Almost answered this until I saw you did, but you may as well manufacture a small one by compressing mass and fly / drop it into the sun like a solar probe. "Black hole" is an obligatory answer on this site, you might get more rep if you give it an obvious heading. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 19:32 | comment | added | SmugDoodleBug | @Henry Taylor I'm not actually arguing that you should use my solution though. My real point is this: You may want to avoid conforming to the expectations of your readers. Especially those reading scifi. I personally read scifi because I love exploration, and the sense of wonder posed by the unknown and fantastical. Whatever option you choose, it SHOULD try to subvert the expectations of your readers, so they actually feel like they themselves are exploring something foreign and new. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 19:31 | comment | added | SmugDoodleBug | @Henry Taylor Sooo...why not use your book to redefine the perceived nature of blackholes, and show they can be the "good guy"? It is your novel afterall, and anything goes if you make it work. Like I said, people like Isaac Arthur have speculated on ways to use blackholes for useful purposes. They only did that because they refused to look at blackholes as solely a destructive force, and sought their "charms" as well. As another example, look at how blackholes are treated in Interstellar: they do cause harm, but they also lead to the human race being saved. | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | I like the idea, but black holes have a rather bad reputation. They are usually seen as bad guys, not solar system saving solutions. Sort of like that inversion of reader expectations, but I can already see the "out of the frying pan into the fire" references.from critics and fans. Might make this another of the things tried by a colony of the Messenger's civilization. An earlier experiment which was abandoned for some less severe solution. Thanks! +1 | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 0:52 | history | answered | SmugDoodleBug | CC BY-SA 4.0 |