How to Use neutron star in a Sentence

neutron star

noun
  • The largest stars will die and give way to neutron stars and black holes.
    Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • X-Ray Images And the source of these X-rays — the black hole or neutron star — is tiny.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
  • At that time, the neutron star released a massive burst of X-rays.
    Fox News, 19 June 2020
  • The remnant of this outburst is a neutron star, which is small but very dense.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • In the known universe, there is nothing quite like a neutron star.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2021
  • Black holes and neutron stars form when large stars run out of fuel and collapse.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • What remains is a dense neutron star with a little more mass than our sun.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a black hole swallowed a neutron star.
    Wilson Wong, NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • As the stellar dust settles, the remains include a neutron star or a black hole.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
  • The powerful bursts could be linked to the orbital motion of a massive star, a neutron star or a black hole.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • These are the conditions that take a neutron star merger and create a blitzar.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • What neutron star is spinning slowly enough to beam at Earth for three seconds at a time?
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • There's little doubt that the smaller object is either a neutron star or a black hole.
    Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2020
  • The burst could also have been the result of a neutron star being torn apart by its companion black hole.
    Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Anything below three times the mass of our sun is considered a neutron star.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • That means neutron star magnetic fields are trillions of times stronger than Earth’s.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • That leaves us with a neutron star as the most likely explanation.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • The neutron star that researchers watched is in the Sculptor Galaxy, roughly 13 million light-years from Earth.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 6 Jan. 2022
  • According to this estimate,the object could be a black hole or a neutron star.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2022
  • Click through online images of the universe to spot events like a black hole or neutron star collision.
    Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • That explosion, which was briefly visible from Earth in C.E. 1054, left behind a neutron star—along with a lot of gas and dust.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2024
  • With neutron star or white dwarf cores, the larger star’s fate is sealed: no supernova.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In both events, the QPOs suggest that a mega-sized neutron star may have formed before collapsing into a black hole.
    Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 9 Jan. 2023
  • At the lower end of that range, the object could actually be a neutron star, researchers say.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • Researchers believed these powerful bursts could be due to the orbit of a massive star, a black hole or a dense neutron star.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • One of the two companions is a neutron star formed in the aftermath of a supernova of a massive star.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Now the core has become a neutron star, an exotic and dense state of matter made mostly of neutrons.
    Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2020
  • For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a black hole swallowing a neutron star, the densest object in the universe — all in a split-second gulp.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
  • However, a black hole — or neutron star — locked in close orbit with a star will pull gas from its companion.
    Fox News, 23 June 2020

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