Current Events > Neutron stars are more interesting than black holes imo

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But seriously though, it's absolutely crazy to have an object with so much gravity that fundamental forces like the strong nuclear force are overcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Omst7XI74

idk, it's pretty damn interesting how two black holes orbiting each other shed mass by expending energy making gravity waves

But which "Neutron-Star" type is your favorite?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/0/5/AAAFvAAADyMF.jpg

Space makes no fucking sense am i right? Like what the FUCK is going ON out THERE

Most neutron starts are pulsars, it's just most of them don't have their magnetic poles facing us directly so we can't tell.

Biggest jumpscare of my life was jumping into a system with a neutron star in Elite Dangerous

ProboBum posted...

Biggest jumpscare of my life was jumping into a system with a neutron star in Elite Dangerous

I've never been near one, but isn't there a tendency for them to immediately annihilate your ship if you're not paying attention?

I wonder how much free energy you can siphon off a Magnetar once you put enough satellites close enough to it to feed of the intense magnetic field at a reasonable distance.

DarkRoast posted...

I've never been near one, but isn't there a tendency for them to immediately annihilate your ship if you're not paying attention?

That's what happened ._. lol need to get it on PC if my laptop can run it >~> last time I played it was on PS4 a couple years ago

At least until we discover an actual primordial strange star.

Theoretical investigations have revealed that quark stars might not only be produced from neutron stars and powerful supernovae, they could also be created in the early cosmic phase separations following the Big Bang.

If these primordial quark stars can transform into strange quark matter before the external temperature and pressure conditions of the early universe renders them unstable, they might become stable, if the BodmerWitten assumption holds true. Such primordial strange stars could survive to this day.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_star

thisworld posted...

At least until we discover an actual primordial strange star.

Strange stars also give off microscopic strange droplets called strangelets which travel through space. Any matter that comes into contact with a strangelet is converted into strange matter. One doomsday scenario is that a strangelet hits the Earth and the Earth is turned into strange matter.

Kurzgesagt video about Strange Stars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_8yK2kmxoo

Neutron stars are probably stuffed full of exotic quarks, as the weak force just isn't really allowed to do anything. May be the only places in the universe where electroweak actually still exists.