{"id":123500,"date":"2021-06-07T09:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/time-to-rethink-theories-physicists-predict-neutron-stars-may-be-bigger-than-previously-imagined"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:23:40","slug":"time-to-rethink-theories-physicists-predict-neutron-stars-may-be-bigger-than-previously-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/time-to-rethink-theories-physicists-predict-neutron-stars-may-be-bigger-than-previously-imagined","title":{"rendered":"Time To Rethink Theories: Physicists Predict Neutron Stars May Be Bigger Than Previously Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-to-rethink-theories-physicists-predict-neutron-stars-may-be-bigger-than-previously-imagined2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what\u2019s left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>That neutron star is the densest celestial body that astronomers can observe, with a mass about 1.4 times the size of the sun. However, there is still little known about these impressive objects. Now, a Florida State University researcher has published a piece<sup>[1]<\/sup> in Physical Review Letters arguing that new measurements related to the neutron skin of a lead nucleus may require scientists to rethink theories regarding the overall size of neutron stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a massive star dies, first there is a supernova explosion. Then, what\u2019s left over becomes either a black hole or a neutron star. That neutron star is the densest celestial body that astronomers can observe, with a mass about 1.4 times the size of the sun. However, there is still little known about these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}