Mountains in stars, but very special ones in neutron stars, recent research claims that the mountains of Neutron Stars could cause ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
The research was published on January 1 by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information of the United States Department of Energy, they are called stars but they are not really stars because they are actually the dead body that remains the collapsed core that remains of a star massive after dying, a typical neutron star has between 1.35 to 2.1 solar masses compressed into the size of just about 12 km radius.
Neutron stars are a trillion times denser than lead, only black holes surpass them in density, everything about a neutron star is extreme, the surface characteristics are largely unknown and those inside are still strangers, but we are finding out things little by little.
We know that neutron stars have a thin crust, it is like an extremely dense sheet, according to the researchers who are in the news now, that sheet, like any other sheet of any other material, can have undulations and these undulations create mountains that could also increase. in height depending on the spin speed of the neutron star and neutron stars spin very fast.
The researchers claim that these mountains could be detected thanks to the laser interferometry gravitational wave observatory at LIGO. To do so, they would have to detect the space-time oscillations known as continuous gravitational waves, a type of special gravitational wave that would be caused by this type. of mountains, in addition, these mountains could explain the maximum spin observed in some neutron stars and could also explain how neutron stars can become radio stations, known as millisecond pulsars.
Since the neutron star is no longer a perfect sphere, having these distortions could create special waves and effects in the fabric of space - time, remember that anything denser than this would already be a black hole, so here we can study some of the effects that there can be in a black hole, is the frontier. The neutron star would be the densest thing we still have within the known universe, although we do not know many things about them and there are many things that are very intriguing.
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