{"id":187724,"date":"2024-04-19T22:28:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/merging-nuclear-physics-experiments-and-astronomical-observations-to-advance-equation-of-state-research"},"modified":"2024-04-19T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T03:28:47","slug":"merging-nuclear-physics-experiments-and-astronomical-observations-to-advance-equation-of-state-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/merging-nuclear-physics-experiments-and-astronomical-observations-to-advance-equation-of-state-research","title":{"rendered":"Merging nuclear physics experiments and astronomical observations to advance equation-of-state research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/merging-nuclear-physics-experiments-and-astronomical-observations-to-advance-equation-of-state-research3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most stars, neutron stars and black holes are their final resting places. When a supergiant star runs out of fuel, it expands and then rapidly collapses on itself. This act creates a neutron star\u2014an object denser than our sun crammed into a space 13 to 18 miles wide. In such a heavily condensed stellar environment, most electrons combine with protons to make neutrons, resulting in a dense ball of matter consisting mainly of neutrons. Researchers try to understand the forces that control this process by creating dense matter in the laboratory through colliding neutron-rich nuclei and taking detailed measurements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most stars, neutron stars and black holes are their final resting places. When a supergiant star runs out of fuel, it expands and then rapidly collapses on itself. This act creates a neutron star\u2014an object denser than our sun crammed into a space 13 to 18 miles wide. In such a heavily condensed stellar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187724","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}