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NASA study helps explain limit-breaking ultra-luminous x-ray sources
- floxy 4y agoBoth of these articles mention that the high magnetic fields could be distorting the shape of the atoms, but shouldn't these be plasmas at these temperatures?
- EdwardDiego 4y agoIIRC the equations of state for neutron stars aren't known yet, there's several models.
- dang 4y agoThe other article is https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/bizarre-object-10-million-times-brighter-than-the-sun-defies-physics-nasa-says https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/bizarre-object-1... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35572092, but we've since merged the threads).
- thriftwy 4y agoStrong magnetic fields are expected to elongate atomic nuclei as well.
- amriksohata 4y agoEvery time when I see an article like this that is along the lines of "this is different to previously than earlier thought" makes me think how little we yet know.
- DougN7 4y agoYes. One of my pet peeves is when I read articles that say “but now we know…” I mean progress is good, but we always think we know everything when something new is figured out. Seems like it’s never the case - there is always more we don’t know that we’ll still discover. I got this pet peeve when I learned in school that because of red shift we “now know” the universe’s expansion was slowing down. Except we NOW know the expansion is accelerating. We’ll see…
- Brian_K_White 4y agoYou just know every time that the source carefully never said that and hates the article that got written from their interview.
- swayvil 4y agoImplicit in "knowing" is the assertion that the story (the model) is just so darn great that we can safely turn a blind eye to the reality itself (that the story supposedly renders) and give our full attention to the story. You could move into this story, like you'd move into an apartment, and never leave.