Neutron stars are very small and dense stars, where roughly half a million earth masses of material are squeezed into a city-sized volume with a radius of 10 km.

Like any substance, neutron stars have an equation of state, or more precisely a phase diagram, such as that for water. The ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above ... supernova \rightarrow \\ neutron~star, ~or~a~black~hole~(depending ...