An exotic star is a hypothetical compact star composed of exotic matter (something not made of electrons, protons, neutrons, or muons), and balanced against gravitational collapse by degeneracy pressure or other quantum properties.
Types of exotic stars include
quark stars (composed of quarks)
strange stars (composed of strange quark matter, a condensate of up, down, and strange quarks)
s (speculative material composed of preons, which are hypothetical particles and "building blocks" of quarks, should quarks be decomposable into component sub-particles).
Of the various types of exotic star proposed, the most well evidenced and understood is the quark star.
In Newtonian mechanics, objects dense enough to trap any emitted light are called dark stars,, as opposed to black holes in general relativity.
However, the same name is used for hypothetical ancient "stars" which derived energy from dark matter.
Exotic stars are largely theoretical – partly because it is difficult to test in detail how such forms of matter may behave, and partly because prior to the fledgling technology of gravitational-wave astronomy, there was no satisfactory means of detecting cosmic objects that do not radiate electromagnetically or through known particles. It is not yet possible to verify novel cosmic objects of this nature by distinguishing them from known objects. Candidates for such objects are occasionally identified based on indirect evidence gained from observable properties.
Quark star and Strange star
A quark star is a hypothesized object that results from the decomposition of neutrons into their constituent up and down quarks under gravitational pressure. It is expected to be smaller and denser than a neutron star, and may survive in this new state indefinitely, if no extra mass is added. Effectively, it is a single, very large hadron. Quark stars that contain strange matter are called strange stars.
Based on observations released by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory on 10 April 2002, two objects, named RX J1856.
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