Millimeter-tall 'mountains' on neutron stars

A bug's life: Millimeter-tall mountains on neutron stars. New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high - one hundred times smaller than previous estimates., due to the huge gravity on the ultra-dense objects.

A bug's life: Millimeter-tall mountains on neutron stars

Gravitational-Wave Observatories Detect Rare Mergers of Black Holes With Neutron Stars for the First Time