Watch :) Press space, the right arrow key, or the button to go next! Made in August 5! ----------------------------------------------------------- What the heck is a Quasi Star? ----------------------------------------------------------- Quasi stars are giant hypothetical supercharged black holes inside a massive, luminous star. These beasts were larger than even the largest star today (Stephenson 2-18)! These guys could be the start of super massive black holes in the center of galaxies today. Inside these monsters are ravenous black holes devouring the star from the inside out! Quasi stars are extremely massive, composed of mostly hydrogen! Basically, regular stars today form when agitated gas clouds collapse and the center of the gas cloud heats up and ignites into a star. Instead, quasi stars formed in the dense early universe, and hydrogen clouds more massive than galaxies pulls gas in, force-feeding a proto-star. Then, it’s core collapses into a black hole! But it doesn’t explode in a supernova, in contrast to stars today. After millions of years of the black hole chipping away at the star, the black hole becomes more and more powerful and hot until eventually the black hole destroys the star, leaving a black hole that could turn into the supermassive black holes today! Space telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope might look at a snapshot of these ridiculous monsters and literally peer back in time, to when these magnificent monsters could have existed. -----------------------------------------------------------
