Mind blown for the day! 🤯 Think about how dense a neutron star is, a whole sun squished into the size of a city. The gravity is so intense it literally crushes atoms into a soup of pure neutrons. But what happens at the very core?

The pressure might be so insane that it actually breaks those neutrons apart into a 'quark core', a state of exotic matter that hasn't existed since milliseconds after the Big Bang! And the craziest part? We might actually be able to prove it soon.

When two neutron stars spiral into each other, their gravity stretches and distorts them. By listening to the ripples in space-time (gravitational waves) from these collisions, physicists think they can read the tidal fingerprints to 'see' inside. We're literally using the echoes of colliding dead stars to study the weirdest physics in the universe! 🌌🔭 #astrophysics #education #science https://thoxt.com/l/IRNrSy 🔗