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. They are mostly composed of ...

A group of scientists at the Goethe University Frankfurt recently published two articles about their work on determining the internal structure of neutron stars. The papers can be found in the ...

If they weigh more than 1.7 times our Sun, they will be heavy neutron stars and have a stiff exterior and softer core (like Lindor chocolate truffles), while lighter ones have a soft mantle and ...

Through extensive model calculations, physicistshave reached general conclusions about the internal structure of neutron stars, where matter reaches enormous densities: depending on their mass ...

In the core of neutron stars, which could weigh as much as the sun but measure the size of a city, matter can be packed so densely that neutrons could dissolve into quarks. This kind of transition ...

A thousand light years from Earth is an ancient remnant of a dead star. Known as the Velar pulsar, it's outer layers were blown away long ago, leaving a core crushed by its intense gravity. It has ...

Gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations can provide new insights into the nature of matter at supranuclear densities inside neutron stars. Improvements in electromagnetic and gravitational ...

With the aim of constraining the structural properties of neutron stars and the equation of state of dense matter, we study sudden spin-ups, glitches, occurring in the Vela pulsar and in six other ...

We study eigenmodes of acoustic oscillations of high multipolarity l∼ 100–1000 and high frequency (∼100 kHz), localized in neutron star envelopes. We show that the oscillation problem is self-similar.

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So, while the exact structure and composition of matter inside neutron stars continues to remain a mystery, the wait until its discovery can certainly be sweetened with a chocolate or two.