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Thanks for your helpful answers.

I read an article yesterday about the fastest moving pulsar yet detected. The Chandra X-ray observatory spied a pulsar in SNR MSH 11-61A and IGR J11014-6103 moving at approximately 6 million miles an hour. This raised the question in my mind of what would happen if this pulsar were to collide...

Thanks all for your helpful answers and comments. I have to admit I have never heard of Rayleigh-Taylor fingers mentioned in the article found by Chronos but I have heard of Rollie Fingers the baseball pitcher. This may explain my "naive" question originally posted.

Thank you for your answers. Am I correct to presume the neutron star(s) remnants still exists or have come to some other catastrophic end?

I understand that our solar system was created from the ejected matter from a super nova. Is it possible to find the location of the black hole or neutron star that formed as a result of this super nova?