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    'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion suns

    That the moving mass energy gets up to > 1000 of the rest mass seem pretty wild for me but that example of the "Oh my God" particle was really mindblowing. Thanks! Trying to calculate the relativistic energy based on near light speed it seems like the final speed of the Marsmallow has to be...
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    'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion suns

    Hydrogen bombs releases hideous amonts of energy. A 1 megaton TNT scale convert a couple ounces of matter (50 gram or so) to energy. How can a 7 gram Marshmallow slam into a magnetar with so much energy that it totally outscales it's own energy in weight?? Will be careful next time I barbecue...