Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km. They are mostly composed of ...

Like any substance, neutron stars have an equation of state, or more precisely a phase diagram, such as that for water.

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

As the two stars spiral toward one another and merge to form a "hyper-massive" neutron star, a small fraction of the matter is ejected in a tidal tail (labeled "red component" in the diagram).

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \(\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} Nebula \rightarrow protostar \rightarrow ...