Why Do Some Stars Explode in a SUPERNOVA, But Others Don’t?

Thank you to Wondrium for sponsoring today’s video! Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: REFERENCES: What if you fell inside a Black Hole: Hawking radiation: Why neutron stars don’t all collapse: White dwarfs: CHAPTERS 0:00 Celestial tug-of-war 1:26 How Fusion creates outward pressure 2:30 What is Pauli Exclusion Principle? 4:09 How do White Dwarfs form? 5:00 Chandrasekhar limit 6:00 How do Neutron stars form? 7:00 Neutron Degeneracy pressure 8:00 Mechanism of Supernova explosion 9:47 Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit 10:30 How do Black Holes form? 12:06 Further study SUMMARY The universe is full of opposing forces balanced in a celestial tug-of-war, until they sometimes aren’t. In stars, the two opposing forces are gravity which tries to collapse the star inward, and outward pressu