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Astronomers detect the most massive neutron star ever
short by Dishant Sharma / on Tuesday, 17 September, 2019
Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope discovered that J0740+6620, a rapidly rotating millisecond pulsar, is the most massive neutron star ever measured. The neutron star has a mass that is 2.17 times the mass of our Sun packed into a sphere which is 30 kilometers across. The discovery will help understand the limits of mass density that nature will allow.
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