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Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity – The Register

According to simulations, anyway

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The gravitational field of neutron stars is so strong that so-called mountains poking out from their surfaces only grow to a fraction of a millimetre in height in simulations.
When certain massive stars finish burning all their fuel and go supernova, the…

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