Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimetre Tall
Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimetre Tall Share An artist's depiction of a neutron star. (Image: ESO / L. Calçada) A team of astrophysicists recently used new models of neutron stars to map the mountains — tiny raised areas — on the stars’ otherwise perfectly spherical structures. They found that the greatest deviations were still extraordinarily small due to the intense gravitational pull, clocking in at less than a millimetre tall. Neutron stars are the dead cores of once-huge stars that collapsed in on themselves. They are the densest objects in the Universe ...
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