How do pulsars acquire planets?

[@MathsScienceandHinduism]

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[@AstroPhil2000]

@@MathsScienceandHinduism Thank you!

[@JKTCGMV13]

What does it mean for a pulsar to consume its companion? It’s not like a black hole where it can just swallow it up, right?

[@Zaaphod]

It rips it apart via tidal forces and mass just falls onto pulsars surface, undergoing the same neutron degeneracy as pulsar itself. If mass of asorbed matter is big enough, it might push the pulsar to collapse further into, so far theoretical, quark star or into black hole.

[@Alien_Planetology]

If an exoplanet formed from the supernova remnant, would its composition be similar to the terrestrial planets that we know, or enriched in heavy elements?

[@AstroPhil2000]

Well it depends really. It would likely have a higher concentration of heavier elements as the part of the remnant that would likely fall back down to the pulsar (forming a disc) would be the inner parts. Also, if it was the black widow scenario, they could be the left over dense core of a stellar sized object. Or even the core of something like a brown dwarf or gas giant. In this case, their composition might vary widely from our terrestrial planets.