A Cosmologist Explains How Quark Stars Form
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First, cram several suns’ worth of mass into a volume no bigger than a typical city, and imagine they are primarily made of free-floating quarks, one of the building blocks of all atoms.
Astrophysicists haven’t found any yet, but quark stars are made of the “strange” type of quark, and their discovery could open new avenues of research.
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A Cosmologist Explains How Quark Stars Form