#collapsar

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Back in Ch 111, Blavat surprises Sebastian by telling him he isn’t human and that he’s a black hole (collapsar) that will devour Ciel, shaking them both to their core. And we got this amazing panel:

Now, in Ch 199, Finny tells the four clones that Undertaker is collecting a lot of human blood, and he can say with certainty that he is “a bad man.” The art parallels Sebastian’s; they’re even mirror images in a sense:

Now, I’ve long seen Undertaker and Sebastian as narrative foils, and this is just further confirmation in my mind.

In case you don’t know what that means, this is a concise definition ala Wikipedia:

The fact that Sirius is a twin star comes again into play. The twins. The foils. The dual snakes on the brand. The way Layla seemed to be “two souls/records” in one body…. The number two certainly seems to be important.

Now that the four clones know what is really going on (sort of), it’s possible they may be willing to help. But the title/subtitle of the chapter seems to imply that they may not be able to escape their fates.

There's Gold in them there Hills

Gold is where you find it ! Or at least, that is the common saying attributed to the fact, it can unlike some elements be found pretty much anywhere, however, it does tend to be in mountainous areas, where geology and weather have come together to leave veins of gold on the bedrock.

The gold was brought to the surface by volcanism and continental drift, allowing it to rise up from the core, and then be weathered down the hills along streams. But how did the gold get into the earth in the first instance ? and who are the real alchemists behind its creation ?

We have to take the story further back, to the formation of our star and the planets. The accretion disk made of dust and gas was spinning around our newly formed sun, and slowly over time gravity drew it together to form the surfaces and atmosphere's of the planets.

The gold wasn't however created in this event, merely seeded into our earth's core by the process of gravitational attraction.

The material that made up our sun and that accretion disk was mostly taken from the nebula that our sun was formed in, but once again, nebula do not form gold, so we need to look at what created the nebula.

For many years Supernova have been believed responsible for gold, in fact, responsible for pretty much most of the elements beyond Iron. Supernova are caused when a massive star collapses to a neutron star or a black hole. However, over many years of observations, the evidence doesn't seem to match, we are not seeing the right amount of gold in such events, leading many to question if gold may have a different origin.

Some have speculated that even more extreme events such as two neutron stars colliding may be responsible for much of the gold, and evidence certain does seem to point towards these rare but most energetic explosions in our universe.

However, if this was true, we'd expect to find little or no gold in amongst the oldest stars in our galaxy, the population II stars, and the very first stars after the big bang, population III stars. Observations of the halo of our galaxy where population II stars are more common has found much more gold than can be accounted for by even the neutron star collision theory, leading some to suggest a theoretical star death called a collapsar could be responsible.

Population III stars, the very first to emerge after the big bang were thought to be massive, and the expectation would be that most of these would collapse into black holes at the end of their lives, seeding the universe with the first black holes to start the formation of galaxies, however, the theory of collapsars suggests that some stars that exceed the normal mass limit for a neutron star, may in fact die in a collapsar, not forming a black hole, but rather a quark star, and these objects could be responsible for much more of the gold that previously thought.

So next time you look at some gold jewellery, just imagine where it came from, and how it got to become that object today.

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Gold may be a glittery leftover from a newborn black hole’s messy first meal.

Gold is a heavy element. So is platinum. And uranium. These and many other heavy elements might form when rapidly spinning, massive stars collapse into newly formed black holes. Known as collapsars, these stars get their name from that collapse. And as this last dying stage of their lives take place, layers of gas around them explode. That collapse and explosion leave a disk of material swirling around each new black hole. When that black hole devours the surrounding material, the conditions become just right for gold, platinum and other heavy elements to form, scientists now report.

Explainer: What is a computer model?

“Black holes in these extreme environments are fussy eaters,” says Brian Metzger. He is an astrophysicist at Columbia University in New York City. These black holes can gulp down only so much matter at a time. What they don’t swallow blows off in a wind. This wind has lots of neutrons — subatomic particles having no electric charge. With a lot of them in the wind, it makes just the right conditions for the creation of heavy elements, Metzger says. At least that’s what simulations from his team’s new computer model suggest.

Collapsar