Super-massive neutron star discovered

It is certainly a super massive item, i wonder just how big could something get without falling in on it self?

I dont think there is any size limit when it comes to super massive stars, See video, And thats only in our milkyway galaxy so I imagine theres even more massive stars out there,

Nice one.

New theory of gravity needed from Newton onwards imo. This finding supports the hypothesis of super dense exotic matter at the centre of the stars and planets imv.

If you guys haven't already done so, the bottom of the article has a rather interesting discussion. Worth reading.

If you guys haven't already done so, the bottom of the article has a rather interesting discussion. Worth reading. Thanks for pointing it out Pallidin, I will have to check it out a bit later,

500 million tons? Really? How is that type of mass measured?

500 million tons? Really? How is that type of mass measured? That's a really good question! The article states that a thimble full of this star material would have a mass of around 500,000,000 tons. In order to get that estimate, you need to know the mass of the star it comes from, and the size of the star as well. From that you can calculate the density of the matter, and then a mass for any given volume of it. Knowing the distance to a star is a huge help in finding out it's size. We determine the distance of a star by several methods, depending on how far away the object may be. Stellar par... [More]

I dont think there is any size limit when it comes to super massive stars, See video, And thats only in our milkyway galaxy so I imagine theres even more massive stars out there, i disagree with the last bit of the video. i am so the center of my universe.

Maybe he meant at what "density" (not size), would a star (or mass) fall into itself. I thought this described "set density" (500 mil tons) was very close to that threshold -- of self-distruction....?