The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
A missed black hole
This recent discovery puts complexity on the life of stars. In a constellation, named the 'Westerlund' some 16000 lightyears away, there found a magnetic neutron star estimated as 40 times heavy as our sun. This is strange, because according to theory, such heavy object should collapse into a black hole. But there seems existing a way out. Find the whole story here.
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