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- noun A hypothetical celestial object that is the remnant of a massive star that has collapsed with gravitational pressure sufficient to reduce all constituent particles to strange quarks.
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- noun A
hypothetical exotic star composed ofquark matter.
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A hypothetical type of exotic star composed of quark matter, or strange matter. These are ultra-dense phases of degenerate matter theorized to form inside particularly massive neutron stars. Also called a strange star. (Wikipedia)
May 20, 2008