{"id":79163,"date":"2018-05-29T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/researchers-discover-one-of-the-most-massive-neutron-stars"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T17:22:21","slug":"researchers-discover-one-of-the-most-massive-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/researchers-discover-one-of-the-most-massive-neutron-stars","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover one of the most massive neutron stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the UPC and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) have found a neutron star of about 2.3 solar masses\u2014one of the most massive ever detected. The study was published on the 23rd of May in the Astrophysical Journal<\/i> and opens a new path of knowledge in many fields of astrophysics and nuclear physics.<\/p>\n

Neutron stars (often called pulsars) are stellar remnants that have reached the end of their evolutionary life: they result from the death of a star of between 10 and 30 solar masses<\/a>. Despite their small size (about 20 kilometres in diameter), neutron stars<\/a> have more mass than the sun, so they are extremely dense.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) used an innovative method to measure the mass of one of the heaviest neutron<\/a> stars known to date. Discovered in 2011 and called PSR J2215+5135, with about 2.3 solar masses it is one of the most massive of the more than 2,000 neutron stars known to date. Although a study published in 2011 reported evidence of a neutron star with 2.4 solar masses, the most massive neutron stars that had previously achieved a consensus among scientists, reported in 2010 and 2013, have 2 solar masses.<\/p>\n

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Using a pioneering method, researchers from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group of the UPC and the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) have found a neutron star of about 2.3 solar masses\u2014one of the most massive ever detected. The study was published on the 23rd of May in the Astrophysical Journal and opens a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79163","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=79163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}