Miranda Lawson is the prodigal daughter (nobodysperfect) wrote in valarnet, @ 2019-09-16 15:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | james kirk, miranda lawson |
Talk about exciting, scientists have discovered a new neutron star in our backyard. It's roughly 4,600 light years from Earth and it strains the limits of physics itself. The star itself is about 15 miles wide, but it's mass is more than twice that of our sun. It is about at the point of how much mass an object its size can contain before it collapses into a black hole.
Do you have any idea how fascinating this is? To find a star that strains physics in such a way, and that in the relatively near future, it will collapse into a black hole? Needless to say, there's a lot of chatter in the astrophysics community today.