General Neutron Star Structure Revealed
Physicists model more than one million equations of state
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Physicists model more than one million equations of state
The abiding mystery of neutron star interiors may have been solved with the sweet revelation that, depending on their mass, they resemble different types of candy.
The results showing that they are like cosmic pralines come from modelling more than a million equations of state for neutron stars.
Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. So far, little is known about the interior of neutron stars, those extremely compact objects that can form after the death of a star: the mass of our sun or even more is compressed into a sphere with the diameter of a large city. Since their discovery more than 60 years ago, scientists have been trying to decipher their structure. Science News | Cosmic Chocolate Pralines, General Neutron Star Structure Revealed: Research.
Life isn't really like a box of chocolates, but it seems that something out there is.