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PBS Space Time

Season 2021 · Episode 26

Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

0.015mSeptember 15, 2021

We’ve traveled to lots of weird places on this show - from the interiors of black holes to the time before the big bang. But today I want to take you on a journey to what has got to be the weirdest place in the modern universe - a place where matter exists in states I bet you’ve never heard of. Today we take a journey to the center of the neutron star.

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Episodes

Episode 1What Happens During a Quantum Jump?
Episode 2Can We Break the Universe?
Episode 3Is Dark Matter Made of Particles?
Episode 4How Does Gravity Warp the Flow of Time?
Episode 5Gravitational Wave Background Discovered?
Episode 6Does Time Cause Gravity?
Episode 7How Does Gravity Affect Light?
Episode 8The NEW Crisis in Cosmology
Episode 9Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect
Episode 10Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
Episode 11What If Dark Matter Is Just Black Holes?
Episode 12The NEW Warp Drive Possibilities
Episode 13How To Know If It's Aliens
Episode 14Breaking The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Episode 15What If (Tiny) Black Holes Are Everywhere?
Episode 16Are We Running Out of Space Above Earth?
Episode 17Can Space Be Infinitely Divided?
Episode 18How Quantum Entanglement Creates Entropy
Episode 19Electrons DO NOT Spin
Episode 20Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?
Episode 21How Magnetism Shapes The Universe
Episode 22How An Extreme New Star Could Change All Cosmology
Episode 23How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse
Episode 24How Vacuum Decay Would Destroy The Universe
Episode 25First Detection of Light from Behind a Black Hole
Episode 26Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe
Episode 27How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible
Episode 28Why Magnetic Monopoles SHOULD Exist
Episode 29New Results in Quantum Tunneling vs. The Speed of Light
Episode 30Will Constructor Theory REWRITE Physics?
Episode 31Is ACTION The Most Fundamental Property in Physics?
Episode 32What If Our Understanding of Gravity Is Wrong?
Episode 33Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?
Episode 34What Happens If A Black Hole Hits Earth?
Episode 35How to Find ALIEN Dyson Spheres