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Neutron Stars With Less Mass Than A White Dwarf Might Exist, and LIGO and Virgo Could Find Them


Theoretically a neutron star could have less mass than a white dwarf. If these light neutron stars exist, we might detect them through the gravitational waves they emit during a cataclysmic merger with another star.

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