45: Biggest Neutron Star Ever!

07/10/2019 46 min Temporada 1 Episodio 45

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Help us make Syzygy even better! Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypodSyzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.On the web: syzygy.fm | Twitter: @syzygypodThings we talked about in this episode:The Nature Astronomy paperNASA’s site on neutron stars, pulsars and magnetarsVideo on white dwarf stars by KurzgesagtElectron degeneracyChandrasekhar and his LimitThe 100m Greenbank Radio ObservatoryDegenerate matterJocelyn Bell Burnell and LGM-1Neutron star limit, known as the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit