[HN Gopher] Bizarre object 10M times brighter than the sun defie...
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       Bizarre object 10M times brighter than the sun defies physics
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2023-04-14 17:22 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.livescience.com)
        
       | alberth wrote:
       | Source link: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-study-helps-
       | explain-limit...
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       | Source title: "NASA Study Helps Explain Limit-Breaking Ultra-
       | Luminous X-Ray Sources"
        
         | floxy wrote:
         | Both of these articles mention that the high magnetic fields
         | could be distorting the shape of the atoms, but shouldn't these
         | be plasmas at these temperatures?
        
           | EdwardDiego wrote:
           | IIRC the equations of state for neutron stars aren't known
           | yet, there's several models.
        
       | amriksohata wrote:
       | Every time when I see an article like this that is along the
       | lines of "this is different to previously than earlier thought"
       | makes me think how little we yet know.
        
         | DougN7 wrote:
         | Yes. One of my pet peeves is when I read articles that say "but
         | now we know..." I mean progress is good, but we always think we
         | know everything when something new is figured out. Seems like
         | it's never the case - there is always more we don't know that
         | we'll still discover. I got this pet peeve when I learned in
         | school that because of red shift we "now know" the universe's
         | expansion was slowing down. Except we NOW know the expansion is
         | accelerating. We'll see...
        
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