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slurps up material from a close binary companion, the unstable thermonuclear burning of that accumulated material can produce a wild explosion that sends X-radiation bursting across the Universe.
Neutron stars are some of the densest objects in the Universe. They're what's left over after a massive star has lived its life, run out of fuel, and We can't exactly go cozy up to a neutron star to look at them more closely, for a number of reasons , but we can collect all the information we can about neutron star X-ray bursts, and try to put together a simulation whose results match the observational data.
The model 3D neutron star had a temperature several million times hotter than the Sun, and a spin speed of 1,000 rotations per second, which is pretty close to the theoreticalAlthough the flame in the 2D simulation spread slightly faster than the 3D version, the growth trends in both models were very similar. This agreement means that the 2D simulation remains a good tool for studying these hectic explosions, but there are still some things it can't do.
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