{"id":190556,"date":"2024-06-03T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/at-716-times-per-second-this-neutron-star-is-the-universes-fastest-spinning-celestial-object"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:23:14","slug":"at-716-times-per-second-this-neutron-star-is-the-universes-fastest-spinning-celestial-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/at-716-times-per-second-this-neutron-star-is-the-universes-fastest-spinning-celestial-object","title":{"rendered":"At 716 times per second, this neutron star is the universe\u2019s fastest spinning celestial object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/at-716-times-per-second-this-neutron-star-is-the-universes-fastest-spinning-celestial-object.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What makes PSR J1748\u20132446 famous for its weirdness? Easy. It is the celestial object that spins the fastest in the universe. It\u2019s also a star whose surface is not just solid, but harder than a diamond. Compared to lead, its density is 50 trillion times higher. Compared to our Sun, its magnetic field sizzles a trillion times more intensely. It is, in essence, the most extreme form of neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>When a heavy sun explodes in a supernova, the core of the sun, which has the mass of several million Earths, collapses into a tiny sphere and the rest of the sun shoots outward. This is how neutron stars are created. When this occurs, the inverse-square law of gravity goes into its demo-mode with a vengeance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes PSR J1748\u20132446 famous for its weirdness? Easy. It is the celestial object that spins the fastest in the universe. It\u2019s also a star whose surface is not just solid, but harder than a diamond. Compared to lead, its density is 50 trillion times higher. Compared to our Sun, its magnetic field sizzles a [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190556","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=190556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}