So if some kind of black hole technology is draining the star in The Force Awakens, there would be a hot, gaseous cloud circling the Starkiller base - and it would be dangerous. All this action also produces a powerful magnetic field, which twists out from the spinning black hole. This motion creates a stressful environment: intense heat, powerful x-rays, and gamma rays. The immense forces cause the disk to rapidly spin inward toward the black hole's center. That disk is known as an accretion disc it's a flat spinning band of gas, dust, and other stellar debris that circles around the edge of the black hole. "The gas of the star flies everywhere, and some of it goes into the black hole, and some forms a gaseous disc," said Roseanne Cheng, an astrophysical scientist at Johns Hopkins University.
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But when a black hole does that, the process isn't as uniform as the movie depicts. That seems to be how the Starkiller weapon worked, by funneling the star's gas toward a single point. When a black hole rips a star apart, the star's debris funnels into the black hole - kind of like water flushing around a toilet. The star will either plunge directly into the black hole or be ripped apart. The hole's immense gravitational forces take hold. But every so often, a star will become dislodged from its spot and get too close to the black hole it orbits. And at the right distance, stars can orbit around these black holes, just like planets orbit around the Sun. Black holes can slurp materials off stars, but their work is a lot messier.īlack holes are incredibly dense objects in space - so massive that not even light can escape their intense gravitational pulls. The film doesn't specify what technology the First Order uses to drain stars - but there's a real life equivalent, kind of. Then, the First Order can shoot this star stuff out of a gigantic cannon, creating a huge beam of plasma capable of eviscerating multiple planets within a system.
Its name reflects its function: Starkiller sucks in the materials of nearby stars and stores them in the planet's core. Starkiller is a snowy, forested planet that has been hollowed out now it's a military base. It's like the Death Star's primary weapon, but on steroids - this is an actual war with stars. In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the next generation of the Empire - known as the First Order - has developed a giant weapon called Starkiller. Note: Major Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers ahead.
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