{"id":90025,"date":"2019-04-27T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/say-hello-to-neutron-stars-your-worst-nightmare"},"modified":"2019-04-27T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T02:02:11","slug":"say-hello-to-neutron-stars-your-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/say-hello-to-neutron-stars-your-worst-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello To Neutron Stars, Your Worst Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/say-hello-to-neutron-stars-your-worst-nightmare.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, black holes get all of the attention. They\u2019re mysterious, they lurk in the shows of interstellar space, they break the laws of known physics, they can trap you forever, they have a cool-sounding and easy-to-understand name. They\u2019ve got great branding.<\/p>\n<p>But some things are even weirder and scarier than black holes. And what makes them weirder and scarier is that they\u2019re weird and scary <em>within<\/em> the known laws of physics. Which means we understand them. Which means we can explain, in great and gruesome detail, just how awful they are.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the neutron star.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/paulmsutter\/2019\/04\/27\/say-hello-to-neutron-stars-your-worst-nightmare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, black holes get all of the attention. They\u2019re mysterious, they lurk in the shows of interstellar space, they break the laws of known physics, they can trap you forever, they have a cool-sounding and easy-to-understand name. They\u2019ve got great branding. But some things are even weirder and scarier than black holes. And what makes [\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-90025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025","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=90025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}