Christian Ecker, first author of the study, "It has the potential to provide new and stringent constraints on the state of matter in neutron stars. This finding paves the way for a better ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants ...

Most of the mass that we can currently see in the universe is locked up in degenerate stars, those that have blown up and collapsed into black holes and neutron stars, or have withered into white ...

Neutron star observations have been used to infer properties of quark matter at high densities, confirming it as a color superconductor. This provides the first empirical upper bound on the ...

neutron stars and magnetars, but they are also producible in the laboratory 3, in nanostructured materials and quantum wells. Importantly, Fermi-degenerate plasmas — plasmas at such a high ...

In a recent study, researchers used neutron star observations to infer the properties of quark matter at even higher densities where it is certain to be a color superconductor.

Neutron stars are very small and dense ... The NICER mission will probe these stars to reveal the nature of matter under these extreme physical conditions.