Science For Sleep | What Is a Blitzar… Really?

What is a blitzar? Tonight we drift across the universe toward one of space's strangest ideas: a supramassive neutron star, held up only by its spin, finally collapsing into a black hole and ringing out one last millisecond flash of radio light. Proposed by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla in 2014, the blitzar is one attempt to explain fast radio bursts, from the 2007 Lorimer Burst to the 2020 magnetar flare of SGR 1935+2154. Real astronomy, told slowly as a bedtime story. Drift off to this slow sleep documentary and let the calm carry you into deep, easy sleep. If this helped you rest, a gentle like or subscribe helps this quiet voice reach others too. #sleep #fallasleep #sleepdocumentary #blackhole #neutronstar #fastradioburst #blitzar #spacesleep #deepsleep