#7486
Brian H
Participant

Here’s an article that has set me wondering: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50258/title/Star_outweighed_any_known_in_Milky_Way

The relevant quote:

Theory predicts that any star heavier than the equivalent of 140 suns blows up in a very special way. Photons produced at the core of such a star provide an outward pressure that resists gravity’s inward pull. But when the core temperature exceeds about a billion kelvins, the photons suddenly become energetic enough to annihilate each other and produce pairs of electrons and positrons.

Is such pair instability a possibility in the FF plasmoid, since temps would be in that range?