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Astronomers have discovered a mysterious neutron star that’s far lighter than previously thought possible. The new object has a radius of just 6.2 miles and only the mass of 77 percent of the Sun. The team of astronomers, led by Victor Doroshenko of Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany, suggest it could be an entirely new type of star. It’s a highly unusual object that could rewrite our understanding of the universe, the team says.Strange stars are hypothetical celestial objects thought to be made up of largely’strange quark’ matter, allowing them to have lower temperatures and masses of other neutron stars. They also suggest that strange stars could be behind fast radio bursts, mysterious and powerful bursts of radio pulses that have yet to be explained. . . .
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