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  2. Escape velocity - Wikipedia

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    Escape speed at a distance d from the center of a spherically symmetric primary body (such as a star or a planet) with mass M is given by the formula [2] [3] = = where: G is the universal gravitational constant (G ≈ 6.67 × 10 −11 m 3 ⋅kg −1 ⋅s −2 ‍ [4])

  3. Neutron star - Wikipedia

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    The neutron star's density also gives it very high surface gravity, with typical values ranging from 10 12 to 10 13 m/s 2 (more than 10 11 times that of Earth). [21] One measure of such immense gravity is the fact that neutron stars have an escape velocity of over half the speed of light. [22]

  4. Surface gravity - Wikipedia

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    The surface gravity of a white dwarf is very high, and of a neutron star even higher. A white dwarf's surface gravity is around 100,000 g (10 6 m/s 2) whilst the neutron star's compactness gives it a surface gravity of up to 7 × 10 12 m/s 2 with typical values of order 10 12 m/s 2 (that is more than 10 11 times that of Earth).

  5. Schwarzschild radius - Wikipedia

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    Stellar black holes have much greater average densities than supermassive black holes. If one accumulates matter at nuclear density (the density of the nucleus of an atom, about 10 18 kg/m 3; neutron stars also reach this density), such an accumulation would fall within its own Schwarzschild radius at about 3 M ☉ and thus would be a stellar ...

  6. Stellar rotation - Wikipedia

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    A neutron star is a highly dense remnant of a star that is primarily composed of neutrons—a particle that is found in most atomic nuclei and has no net electrical charge. The mass of a neutron star is in the range of 1.2 to 2.1 times the mass of the Sun. As a result of the collapse, a newly formed neutron star can have a very rapid rate of ...

  7. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    Maximum speed recorded by a Formula One car. ... The escape velocity of a neutron star. 200,000,000: 720,000,000: 440,000,000 0.7: Speed of a signal in an optical ...

  8. Orbital decay - Wikipedia

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    Orbital decay is a gradual decrease of the distance between two orbiting bodies at their closest approach (the periapsis) over many orbital periods.These orbiting bodies can be a planet and its satellite, a star and any object orbiting it, or components of any binary system.

  9. Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit - Wikipedia

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    [7] And indeed, the most massive neutron star detected so far, PSR J0952–0607, is estimated to be much heavier than Oppenheimer and Volkoff's TOV limit at 2.35 ± 0.17 M ☉. [8] [9] More realistic models of neutron stars that include baryon strong force repulsion predict a neutron star mass limit of 2.2 to 2.9 M ☉.