Sources of Gravitational Waves—Exotic PossibilitiesSXS Home Page

Objects that physicists are just beginning to imagine

Superstrings, quark stars, boson stars, fermion stars. Astrophysicists speculate on the existence of objects they have never clearly seen before. Gravitational waves provide a possible way of finding these objects using the unique signals they would give off.

Quark Stars

Boson Stars

Fermion Stars





 



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