“First Ever Map of a Neutron Star Reveals Something Weird”,
with Anton Petrov.
The neutron star he describes is only about a thousand light
years away and is about 14 miles in diameter with a mass slightly larger than
the Sun.
The gravity of a neutron star is so strong that it deflects
light, and enables you to see some of the backside. This is called “gravitational lensing” (which would also apply to black holes). It is possible for a neutron star to have its
own planets.
But the pattern of this neutron star is that all the magnetic
emissions are coming from the South Pole.
The computer simulations show the surface as having a pebbly-looking
surface.
Inside the matter may be so compressed that it becomes “strange
matter”.
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