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  • Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimetre Tall

    Neutron Stars Have Mountains That Are Less Than a Millimetre Tall

    A team of astrophysicists recently used new models of neutron stars to map the mountains — tiny raised areas — on the stars’ otherwise perfectly spherical structures. They found that the greatest deviations were still extraordinarily small due to the intense gravitational pull, clocking in at less than a millimetre tall.