Comment by saagarjha

7 years ago

I am well aware that helium is a noble gas, and generally does not form molecular compounds. Under the right conditions, though, helium can from molecules bound with the van der Waals force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium_compounds

So under giga-pascal pressures at temperatures approaching absolute zero - are we talking about needing a black hole for that? Are these the 'right conditions' we are talking of?

This is a long way off the article, you are having a laugh!