neutron stars we have heard of but THESE?

Have you ever heard an astronomer discuss one of these types of stars?  Apparently they are an unusual form of white dwarf star.  You have likely heard of white dwarfs but they become categorized as a quark star when this happens:

There are the white dwarfs, the remnants of stars like our Sun which have passed through the main sequence phase, and now they’re cooling down.

There are the neutron stars and pulsars formed in a moment when stars much more massive than our Sun die in a supernova explosion. Their gravity and density is so great that all the protons and electrons from all the atoms are mashed together. A single teaspoon of neutron star weighs 10 million tons.

Is that insane can you even get your mind around that kind of density?  Could the laws of physics that we think we understand even reasonably have a chance of holding up in an environment like that?  There is a good chance the answer could be no.

Let’s check out what a quark star could look like in the video on page 2

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