superdense

/ ˈsuːpəˌdɛns /

adjective

1. astronomy of or relating to an extreme condition in which matter is forced into nonclassical states, as when electrons are forced into protons, leaving only neutrons

   superdense matter

Example Sentences

When detectors in the United States and Europe picked up waves from the violent merger of two neutron stars—superdense stellar remnants—in 2017, optical telescopes zoomed in and found evidence of r-process elements being formed.

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If the core itself has less than about 2.8 times the mass of the sun, it collapses into a superdense, rapidly spinning neutron star.

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“It was influential; it was visionary,” says Feryal Özel, an astrophysicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, of Oppenheimer’s work on black holes and neutron stars, the superdense corpses of expired massive stars.

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The behavior of matter in such a superdense object is so complicated that even computer simulations aren’t up to the task.

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The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater than the Sun’s into a ball about as wide as San Francisco.

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