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The Most Massive Neutron Stars Probably Have Cores of Quark Matter


When a star with several times the mass of the Sun dies in a supernova explosion, it ends up as a neutron star, compressing its protons and electrons into neutrons. But neutron stars have layers, and the most massive ones there might have a core made of an even denser material called

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