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Quark Stars

BigGar' writes "Astronomers seem to have discovered a new type of star. It would lie between a neutron star and and a black hole in the hierarchy of stars and consist of quark matter. Further observations with the Chandra X-ray telescope will be needed to confirm the results."

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  1. yay by CatKnight · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my first first post!

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    1. Re:yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    2. Re:yay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Mirrored for your pleasure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (CNN) --Two rogue stars have failed to live up to scientific expectations, compelling puzzled astronomers to fuckin' consider the fucking likelihood that them dildos possess a motherfucking piece of shit new and exotic form of matter.

    If confirmed, the fucking discovery would warrant a piece of shit new class of objects, quark stars, which fall somewhere in between neutron stars and black holes in density.

    "That bastard would change the fucking family tree a bit and put a fuckin' piece of shit new member in that shit," University of Chicago astronomer Michael Turner told reporters Wednesday.

    Neutron stars are the fucking vestiges of immense supernova explosions, collapsed stars with extremely compact cores, denser than all known objects except black holes. Get ready for pain. A teaspoonful of a neutron star would weigh one billion tons, as much as all the fucking cars and trucks on Earth.

    At least, until astronomers using the fucking Chandra X-ray Observatory spied two presumed neutron stars, RXJ1856 and 3C58. Based on the fucking known laws of physics, the fucking former appeared much smaller and the fucking latter much colder than them jizzers should.

    The fucking strange traits of RXJ1856 and 3C58 suggest that the fucking pair are not neutron stars at all. Caw caw! The ravens are singing, you are a fuck. Them ass-riders could be composed of quarks, or crystals of sub-nuclear particles rather than neutrons.

    "Both of these objects have properties which seem to contradict fuckin' what we know about matter," said Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jeremy Drake.

    Quarks are thought to fuckin' be the fucking fundamental building blocks of matter. Them poo pirates combine to fuckin' make the fucking basic subatomic particles, protons and neutrons.

    But quarks have remained fleeting, appearing for a fuckin' fraction of a second in a motherfucking handful of laboratories when atomic nuclei smash into one another at incredible speeds.

    The fucking quarks that make up conventional matter are called "up" and "down" quarks. Physicists theorize that even more elusive "strange" quarks, possible remnants from the fucking birth of the fucking universe, still lurk in the fucking cosmos.

    The fucking Chandra data gives the fucking first evidence that them queefs exist in nature. You are a bitch. But the fucking astronomers caution that the fucking results are preliminary.

    "More observations are needed to find out fuckin' what is going on here," Turner said

  3. Re:Analogies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That's not funny Karma whore.
    Go suck your mom's cock.

  4. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Schwing!

  5. Just bitching and moaning, ignore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I would just like to point out that I submitted this story over 12 hours ago... :/

    /me points to the [REJECTED] tatoo on forehead.

  6. Re:I thought black holes didn't exist anymore... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no black holes? jesus, man... you should see my girlfriend..

  7. Did You Know? by t0j0 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Told you so by Beliskner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Told you so! Woohoo!

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