Chapter 224 - 223: Newborn Black Hole
The neutron star, after collapsing, turned into a blue-violet celestial body merely a few thousand kilometers across, much smaller than the hundreds of thousands of kilometers a neutron star typically measures.
This indicates that the internal structure of the neutron star has changed, at least no longer balancing by the neutron degeneracy pressure but has transformed into another type of degeneracy pressure.
"Could this be a Quark Star?"
As a Level Three Civilization, the scientists from Earth Core Civilization immediately guessed it.
Because quarks are the main particles making up neutrons, when neutrons can no longer withstand the intense gravitational collapse and their structure is completely crushed by the pressure, the smaller and more stable quark particles naturally become the main material support structure. It is under such gravitational pressure that only the quark particle form can exist, hence this type of celestial body comprised entirely of quark particles is called a Quark Star.
However, what’s confusing is that Quark Stars are extremely rare in the universe.
Even in the long history of Earth Core Civilization, they had not observed any Quark Stars.
However, now in this situation, one suddenly appeared before them, which was somewhat unexpected for Earth Core Civilization.