On Jan 28, 9:24*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:

It seems the majority of us in this newsgroup have a conventional
understanding of nuclear physics circa the 1950's, but there are groups
of scientists who have a deeper understanding about it than us. Perhaps
equipped with 1970's knowledge.

Yeah, it's strange that this is just being investigated now.

I wonder if we'll ever detect one of these stars. The trouble is, the
energy of electroweak burning will be virtually all emitted as
neutrinos, and thus undetectable. The photon luminosity should be
hardly greater than a normal neutron star. So I guess the sign of an
electroweak star will be an object that clearly can't be a black hole
but is above the normal neutron-star limit, which is probably around
2.2 Msun.

Andrew Usher