Neutron Stars — Topic Summaries
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Strange Stars | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
Physicists have long expected the heaviest stars to end in black holes, but a narrow window before that final collapse may produce “strange...
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
Cosmological natural selection proposes that black holes don’t just end stars—they help “reproduce” universes. In this framework, each black hole...
The Black Hole Tipping Point
Black holes don’t form just from having a lot of mass; they require enough mass packed into a small enough region that the object crosses a “tipping...
The Boundary Between Black Holes & Neutron Stars
A gravitational-wave merger detected in 2019 appears to involve a “small” black hole candidate paired with a companion mass of 2.6 times the Sun—an...
How to Build a Black Hole
A black hole forms when a collapsing stellar core becomes compact enough that its radius matches (and then falls inside) the radius of the would-be...
Is 'Perpetual Motion' Possible with Superfluids?
Perpetual motion is a scam, but a “never-ending” kind of motion can happen in nature: liquid helium can enter a superfluid state where stirring can,...
Is there a Black Hole Hiding in the Sun?
A new calculation makes “black holes inside stars” feel less like science fiction: if dark matter particles can accumulate in a star’s core and...