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tameriaen t1_iviefjk wrote

Question for folks who know better: I've heard it theorized that quark stars would have a strangelet-crystal crust (and I have no idea what that would mean for their magnetic field). Based on the data we've got, "is there any reasonable possibility this bizarre is a strange star?"

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MyShixteenthAccount t1_ivkg2j0 wrote

Aren't quark stars black holes?

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tameriaen t1_ivlg460 wrote

We don't know what's on the other side of the event horizon -- could be quark star, plank star, singularity, whitehole universe, or something else. Your guess is as good as mine.

That said, it's thought that neutron stars might have quark matter cores, and there's a handful of stars (without event horizons) as candidates for quark stars.

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MyShixteenthAccount t1_ivlvy6z wrote

I had only known quark stars as proposals for what's inside a black hole, didn't know they could be neutron star cores.

That's interesting.

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