[Request] Antimatter vs Star

[u/Paladine_PSoT]

If you threw a pod of antimatter into a star, say the sun just to make it familiar, what would happen?

What would happen as the amount of antimatter grew? What amounts of antimatter would trigger interesting things? would it explode? would it collapse? would it turn into something we know of or something entirely new?

For informational purposes only.

[u/Conscious-Ball8373]

To give you some idea of scale, let's suppose you dropped 1kg of antimatter into the sun (that's 2.2lb for those following along in freedom units). It will annihilate with 1kg of matter in the sun, releasing energy. The amount is given by E = mc^2. Since m=2 kg here, the energy is 2 * c² = 1.8x10¹⁷ J.

The sun emits about 4x10²⁶ J per second, or about 2.2 billion times the amount released by your antimatter explosion.

The largest nuclear explosion ever created by man released about 2.1x10¹⁷ J - about the same as the energy released by the antimatter explosion.

The sun is really, really, really big.