Sentences with phrase «axion stars»
In 2015, Iwazaki theorised that FRBs were the product of axion stars hitting the magnetic fields of neutron stars, the corpses of stars several times the sun's mass.
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«If there are many axion stars in the centres, we expect that some of them collide with the black hole accretion disc,» says Iwazaki.
Not exact matches
Aiichi Iwazaki at Nishogakusha University in Tokyo says that because the early universe was smaller and offered more chances for axions to attract each other, they would have clumped together to form axion «stars».
That wouldn't explain the repetition seen from FRB 121102, because neutron stars don't have accretion discs that would simply pull material off the axions rather than destroying them.