Latest Fastest Spinning Neutron Star
As reported here, recently a star was recorded rotating at an extraordinary 716 times per second. But the new record is now 1122 rotations per second!
This is faster than scientists thought possible, so they are thinking that this neutron star might have an interior composed of exotic matter.
This further reinforces how little we know about these stars, which means the possibility of them sending damaging radiation in the direction if Earth is as strong as ever.
This is faster than scientists thought possible, so they are thinking that this neutron star might have an interior composed of exotic matter.
This further reinforces how little we know about these stars, which means the possibility of them sending damaging radiation in the direction if Earth is as strong as ever.
posted by Rob at
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
1 Comments:
of course, the unthinkable possibility still exists that the Standard Model to explain neutron stars could be fatally flawed; I have a car that idles at around the speed of that supposed rotating neutron star, and it is only a meter across.
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