Quark matter may join solid, liquids, gases, and plasmas as a newly-understood state of matter. Far from being exotic, a new study suggests that quark matter could make up a large percentage of ...

During a neutron-star merger, the stars rapidly change shape and heat up, causing changes in the state of matter inside them. The merger may also produce quark matter, where the elementary ...

Neutron stars may contain free quarks. From an astrophysical perspective, the possibility of deconfined quark matter existing in neutron star cores raises a whole host of intriguing new questions, ...

New theoretical analysis places the likelihood of massive neutron stars hiding cores of deconfined quark matter between 80 and 90 percent. The result was reached through massive supercomputer runs ...

Such quark matter theories have strong implications in the formation, development and current behavior of the Solar System, as primordial quark nuggets orbiting the Galaxy would be subject to capture ...

So if we find pulsars in the 800 Hz or higher range, we know they likely contain quark matter in their cores. Another way to test the hybrid neutron star model would be to find more millisecond ...

This state of matter, known as “cold quark matter,” can likely only exist in the cores of these immensely dense objects. Nothing inspires stellar awe quite like a neutron star.

"We believe that we have proposed a completely new method that could efficiently identify strange quark matter objects," Geng said. The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 29 in a paper ...

Quarks are elementary particles that are the building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. Explore them in more detail here.

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse.