What is beneath the stars is reported to have posed a real challenge to naive scientific understanding of the physical world without being much made mention of. Some call it an “impossible object” because it describes an object that behaves contrary to all scientific postulation at this moment, prohibited by any currently accepted scientific model. The Cosmos is dark and full of surprises, but this one really asks for reconsideration of how experts theorize about star and black hole evolution.
It Defies Traditional Classification
One can usually distinguish a star, planet, or black hole by size-light. This new object occupies an altogether forbidden zone. It is too massive to be a normal neutron star, yet too light to be a black hole, pretty much leaving scientists with a bunch of what-the-hell is it.
The Mass Gap Puzzle
For decades scientists have been insisting that there must be such a specific “empty” range of masses. Either it would be a small mass-something like a neutron star-or it would be so large as to be a black hole. Never could anything exist in between. ”It is in that middle zone, thereby proving that the “gap” is not empty”.
Extreme Density
This thing is just crazy dense. Picture cramming half a dozen suns into a volume about the size of a small city. That density helps to create a gravitational pull that warps space around it in irregular ways, beyond the measuring powers of today’s instruments.
Weird Blinks
Regular stars pulse their beams of energy almost periodically, so we could just say that this object is not an ordinary star. Instead, we think that the irregular timing of pulses is what first directed telescopes to deep space in its day-in telling them that something strange was going on-with its comparisons to the famous pulsars.
Contradicting Physics
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit states that once a neutron star reaches some weight, it collapses to become a black hole, but this object is above that weight limit and without collapsing; therefore, there must exist some unknown state of matter that we do not know of.
Discovered By Gravitational Waves
Initially scientists neither saw nor identified the object through normal telescopic lenses. This one was first detected through gravitational waves-ripples occurring in the fabric of space-time caused by massive collisions-and led to the determination of the mass and speed of the object.
It Could Be a Quark Star
It may be a quark star. In an ordinary star, atoms hold everything together. In a neutron star, neutrons crush the atoms. Quark stars do have such great pressures that neutrons even break apart into fragment quarks. So far, this theory has remained only theoretical.
A “Long-Period” Magnetar?
Some scholars might contend that this is a subclass of magnetar-a star with an ultra-strong magnetic field-but one that rotates much more slowly than anything hitherto seen. Such stars typically spin at a rate of once every few seconds; this “impossible” object might take minutes or hours to spin, an occurrence contrary to modern paradigms of energy.
It is Relatively Close
The object was relatively discovered within or near our own cosmic neighborhood, but could still be termed very far into the realm of “deep space”. That alone adds to its interest- we can point larger telescopes toward it and practically observe its behavior in real-time, rather than analyze something that is billions of light-years away.
Rewriting Astronomy Textbooks
This finding is indeed indicative of how little is understood with regard to the universe’s functioning. Scientists will have no choice but to modify whatever rules they have for dying stars and gravity in the wake of that avalanche of fresh data. It would thus open an entirely new chapter in the history of astronomy.
