{"id":184647,"date":"2024-03-09T02:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/neutron-star-mergers-new-physics-signals"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:36:41","slug":"neutron-star-mergers-new-physics-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/neutron-star-mergers-new-physics-signals","title":{"rendered":"Neutron star mergers: New physics signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_Akn8fUBeQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is reason to believe that novel physics outside the standard model may be on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>When two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/colliding-neutron-stars-shed-light-universal-mysteries\/33686\/\">neutron stars merge<\/a>, a short-lived, hot, dense remnant is created. This residue provides an excellent environment for the synthesis of unusual particles. For a brief while, the remnant becomes far hotter than the individual stars before congealing into a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/tag\/neutron-star\/\">neutron star<\/a> or, depending on the original masses, a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that neutron star mergers are a treasure trove for new physics signals, with implications for determining the true <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/solving-one-biggest-open-questions-about-dark-matters-nature\/47021\/\">nature of dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is reason to believe that novel physics outside the standard model may be on the horizon. When two neutron stars merge, a short-lived, hot, dense remnant is created. This residue provides an excellent environment for the synthesis of unusual particles. For a brief while, the remnant becomes far hotter than the individual stars before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184647","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}