Homepage
Open in app
Sign in
Get started
Tagged in
Neutron Stars
Starts With A Bang!
The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it.
More information
Followers
51K
Elsewhere
More, on Medium
Neutron Stars
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Sep 22, 2023
Ask Ethan: Why don’t neutron stars decay?
Neutrons can be stable when bound into an atomic nucleus…
Read more…
429
4 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Aug 8, 2023
Oppenheimer’s forgotten astrophysics work explains why black holes exist
Even with the quantum rules…
Read more…
613
4 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Mar 18, 2023
Starts With A Bang podcast #91 — Hypermassive neutron stars
Somewhere out there in the Universe is the…
Read more…
101
2 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Dec 28, 2021
Yes, the gold given to baby Jesus was made in a neutron star collision
When three wise men gifted…
Read more…
202
2 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Oct 1, 2021
Ask Ethan: Are we the children of neutron stars and black holes?
Are the stellar remnants in our…
Read more…
194
1 response
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Jun 21, 2021
What Are The Hottest Stars In The Universe?
If you go young, blue, and massive, you top out at 50,000 K. That’s peanuts!
Read more…
169
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Dec 24, 2020
Merging Neutron Stars Really Can Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Conundrum
With just a few more neutron…
Read more…
545
2 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Sep 16, 2020
Surprise: Neutron Stars And White Dwarf Stars Aren’t Actually Stars
Just because you have “star” in…
Read more…
603
6 responses
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Aug 10, 2020
Scientists May Have Just Found The Youngest Neutron Star Ever
It comes from a supernova seen just 33…
Read more…
296
Ethan Siegel
in
Starts With A Bang!
Mar 27, 2020
New LIGO Events Demolish The Idea Of A ‘Mass Gap’ Between Neutron Stars And Black Holes
Read more…
275
1 response