Three such ULXs have been
identified as neutron stars so far.
Not exact matches
Recently astronomers have pinned down the location of the bursts and tentatively
identified them
as massive supernova explosions and
neutron stars colliding both with themselves and black holes.
Soon after, pulsars were
identified as rapidly spinning
neutron stars, the remnants of supernova explosions; they weigh
as much
as the sun but are just a dozen miles wide.
A large body of evidence now
identifies pulsars
as rotating magnetized
neutron stars.
«With these missions we will learn about the most extreme states of matter by studying
neutron stars and we will
identify many nearby
star systems with rocky planets in the habitable zone for further study by telescopes such
as the James Webb Space Telescope.»