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Neutron Stars Contain the Strongest Material Sunday, May 10, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Talk about a hard body. New supercomputer simulations of the crusts of neutron stars--the rapidly spinning ashes left over from supernova explosions--reveal that they contain the densest and strongest material in the universe. So dense, in fact, that the gravity of the mountain-sized imperfections on the surfaces of these stars might actually jiggle spacetime itself. If so, neutron stars could offer new insights into a mysterious phenomenon known as gravity waves. (source: sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
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If one were to measure the strongest material based upon the density achieve via gravity, then the black hole still stands as king and beyond our current ability to measure. |
