Is a Pulsar more powerful than a Black hole?

Question

What do you think?

Answer 1

Well, where does that "power" come from?

I would say no, because black holes don't have a maximum mass, while pulsars do. Black holes are what power quasars, and quasars are the most distant objects every seen, so they must be extremely powerful.

Answer 2

Neutron stars are collapsed stars that were not quite massive enough to become a black hole. A neutron star becomes a pulsar when matter falls towards it and massive quantities of radio escape the poles.

When matter falls towards a black hole, some of it escapes in jets that emerge from the poles. Technically this matter was never quite inside the event horizon, but it came close. The result is a pyrotechnic blowtorch from hell that extends for thousands of lightyears and looks something like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar

This is called a quasar. There is a limit to how big the neutron star that powers a pulsar can get before becoming a black hole, but there is no limit on the size of a black hole! So, quasars can be much more powerful than pulsars.

Answer 3

I think they are only 10% the power, because light is escaping from some areas. Black holes are the ultimate physical body, but not including the Big Bang. Black holes power every galaxy.

Answer 4

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars - and pulsars pulse because they rotate.
In comparison, black holes are much more massive than neutron stars (pulsars). Neutron stars may have a diameter of 20 km but have 40% more mass than our sun and therefore its density is so immense that its gravitational field can be a trillion times that of the earth.

Answer 5

It depends on what you mean by power. But I think a black hole would be more powerful because nothing- not even light which has NO mass- can escape it

Answer 6

No. Black holes are much more massive. It would be interesting to see a black hole consume a nuetron star though

Answer 7

black holes are very powerful

Answer 8

i think no