How Squeezable are Neutron Stars?

[Binary_Bark]

Two neutron stars. One is 50% more massive than the other, yet they are almost exactly the same size. The results have big implications for understanding what neutron stars are really made of.


In 2019 a team of astronomers led by Thomas Riley, a postdoctoral researcher, and Anna Watts, a professor of astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam, measured the mass and radius of a certain neutron star. The neutron star in question was J0030+0451 (or J0030 for short). They found it to be about 1.4 times the mass of the sun and about 16 miles across – pretty typical for neutron stars.

How Squeezable are Neutron Stars?

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[konfab]

Still not as dense as the ANC leadership.

 

[Ancalagon]

Still not as dense as the ANC leadership.

They aren't dense.

They all have at least Masters degrees in Theoretical Governance, PhDs in Applied Corruption, and a long history of publishing a lot of papers but doing very little actual work.