“But neutron stars are different – they are so dense that dark matter particles are much more likely to interact with the star. If dark matter particles do collide with neutrons in the star, they will lose energy and become trapped. Over time, this would lead to an accumulation of ...
A possible evolutionary history of neutron stars is delineated, ranging from star formation through supernova explosions, X-ray and pulsar stages to an eventual pulsar turnoff via spin alignment, or magnetic field decay. New is the emphasis that there should be two populations of pulsars, the ...
Of course, physicists aren't exactly throwing medicine balls at quanta to measure them, but even the slightest interference can cause the incredibly small particles to behave differently. This is why quantum physicists are forced to create thought experiments based on the observations from the real ...
Using Newton's Theory of Gravity, Laplace calculated that if an object were compressed into a small enough radius, then the escape velocity of that object would be faster than the speed of light. The Event Horizon The core becomes the central part of the black hole called the singularity. ...
Time passes faster in orbit, because satellites are farther away from the mass of the Earth. Down here on the surface, the planet's mass drags on time and slows it down in small measures. We call this effect gravitational time dilation. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity,...
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In addition, scientists need to understand the interactions that involve neutrinos to predict the heavy elements produced from the explosions of stars and star mergers. Angular moments encapsulate the total number and flux of the neutrinos into a small set of equations of motion. Scientists can then...
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Diosi was the first to attribute these reductions to observable differences in spacetime geometry [31], but given that the gravitational force is extremely weak and the frequencies of gravitational waves observed in the collisions of black holes and neutron stars are of the order of 30 Hz, we ...
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