The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars
Briefly

It's a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you consider the astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely violent end.The team reconstructed a city from a pile of dust.To deduce so much from so little, they combined observations of the neutron stars with insights gleaned from studying other stars and galaxies, having created a behemoth of a mathematical model of both observed and hypothetical stars.
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