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Green Bank Telescope detects most massive neutron star ever observed

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Via:  sandy-2021492  •  5 years ago  •  12 comments

Green Bank Telescope detects most massive neutron star ever observed

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A neutron star with 2.17 times the mass of our Sun crammed into a sphere 18.6 miles across has been observed 4,600 light years from Earth by astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County.



The high-density neutron star is the most massive ever detected, and approaches the theoretical maximum mass possible for a neutron star, according to the researchers who discovered it.



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sandy-2021492
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1  seeder  sandy-2021492    5 years ago
“Neutron stars are as mysterious as they are fascinating,” said Thankful Cromartie, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville and the principal author of the paper. “These city-sized objects are essentially ginormous atomic nuclei. They are so massive that their interiors take on weird properties. Finding the maximum mass that physics and nature will allow can teach us a great deal about this otherwise inaccessible realm in astrophysics.”
 
 
 
Enoch
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1.2  Enoch  replied to  sandy-2021492 @1    5 years ago

Dear Friend Sandy: Fascinating.

Thanks for posting.

Please inform us on such topics.

We are the better off for knowing them.

We can never know too much about our universe.

Who is to say where such findings can be helpful?

P&AB.

Enoch.

 
 
 
charger 383
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2  charger 383    5 years ago

I have been by there several times going to Cass Railroad

 
 
 
MrFrost
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3  MrFrost    5 years ago
A neutron star with 2.17 times the mass of our Sun crammed into a sphere 18.6 miles across

Crikey, that's some REALLY dense material. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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3.1  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  MrFrost @3    5 years ago

It must be scary beautiful.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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3.2  Trout Giggles  replied to  MrFrost @3    5 years ago
A neutron star with 2.17 times the mass of our Sun crammed into a sphere 18.6 miles acros

I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around that. That's a lot of potential energy. Good thing it's over 4,600 light years away

 
 
 
katrix
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4  katrix    5 years ago

My friend has a cabin in the mountains there - you can see the telescope when sitting out on the deck. It's a beautiful area and NO CELL PHONES!

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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4.1  seeder  sandy-2021492  replied to  katrix @4    5 years ago

Or WiFi.

 
 
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