The strangest worlds in the universe .. The discovery of a group of “zombie planets”

Media – Omani Business

Stars glow through a nuclear fusion process in which lighter atoms such as hydrogen fuse together to form heavier atoms.

This process releases enormous amounts of energy that counteract the constant internal pull of the star’s gravity. Ultimately, merging helps stars resist gravitational collapse.

This balance of forces is called “hydrostatic balance”. However, the time will come when the fuel supply in the center of the star will begin to run out and eventually die.

Stars with a mass greater than eight times the mass of the Sun usually run out of fuel in less than 100 million years. Once the fusion stops, the star collapses, generating an instant, massive final explosion of nuclear fusion, which causes the star to explode into a supernova.

The supernova releases enough energy to overtake the galaxy it is in. What remains after the collapse and death of stellar nuclei is called neutron stars or, if the dead star is massive enough, a black hole.

All planets orbiting a star will be eliminated when it transforms into a supernova. But under mysterious circumstances, scientists have discovered a group of “zombie planets”, which revolve around neutron stars, one of the strangest worlds in the universe.

Neutron stars are extremely dense and contain mass equal to the mass of the Sun a few miles away. Some neutron stars emit beams of radio waves into space and planets have been found around these “pulsating” stars.