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Showing posts with label neutron stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neutron stars. Show all posts

Friday, July 17, 2020

Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded

Title:
Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object

Author:
Alex Fox

Published:
Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2020
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/distant-black-hole-collides-mysterious-object-180975193/

From the article:
Roughly 780 million years ago and a correspondingly distant 780 million light-years away, a strange stellar object was devoured by a black hole 23 times more massive than the sun.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

CERN - Neutron stars show their cores

Title:
Neutron stars show their cores

Author:
Ana Lopes

Published:
CERN, 2 June 2020
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/neutron-stars-show-their-cores

From the article:
In a paper just published in the journal Nature Physics, a quintet of researchers including Aleksi Kurkela from CERN’s Theory department provides evidence that massive neutron stars can contain cores filled with free quarks. Such quark matter resembles the dense state of free quarks and gluons that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang and can be recreated at particle colliders on Earth, such as the Large Hadron Collider.