The Strange Matter Neutron stars are the densest things that aren't black holes. In their cores, we'd find the foremost dangerous substance in existence: Strange matter . A bizarre thing so extreme, that it bends the principles of the universe and will infect and destroy everything it comes into contact with or it could teach us about how the universe began. Maybe both. to know how extreme strange matter really is, we first got to get a couple of basics. what's a star , and the way does strange matter break the principles of the universe? to urge all of this into one article, we'll grossly oversimplify a couple of things, but we'll provide you with further reading if you would like more details. A star is what remains after a really massive star explodes during a supernova. When this happens, the star's core collapses under its own gravity with such a robust inward force that it squeezes nuclei and particles together violently. Electrons are pushed into...
Mysterious The Great Attractor If you’ve been following my article series recently, you’ll notice that we’ve talked a lot about how the universe is structured, filament structures of galaxies being pulled apart by the universe’s expansion, with bubbles or voids forming in the gaps. Because of the universe’s expansion, everything is moving away from everything. But of course, this isn’t totally true in practice, due to a mysterious force called gravity. Gravity is a pulling force, or technically it is the curvature of space-time caused by uneven distribution of mass. On very small scales, gravity is hardly relevant at all. I don’t feel any pull towards objects around me, only towards the Earth because it is so massive. Celestial objects close enough to the Sun are most influenced by its gravity, and all stars in the galaxy orbit around a supermassive black hole at the galaxies core. But i...