Pulsars (Dense States of Cosmic Matter)
The possibility that the degeneracy pressure of neutrons might stabilize a self gravitating object was first noted in the 1930s by T. L.D. Landau and F.Zwicky. W.Baade and F.Zwicky emphasized that they might exist as the stellar remnant of a supernova explosion, interest in neutron stars was aroused by the discovery of X-ray stars in […]