# Dr. Wen-Fai Fong -- The Neutron Star Mash

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Podcast: [The Astrophysics Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-astrophysics-podcast-6738395)
Published: 2025-09-01T04:00:38+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/astrophysics/2192601
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Duration seconds: 2600

## Resource

What kinds of things do neutron stars do? They can smash into each other, producing bright flashes of radiation and strong ripples in spacetime that can be detected across the universe! Or, a neutron star can just be sitting there, and its magnetic field might suddenly shift and produce a dramatic burst of radio waves! But mainly, neutron stars are super-dense and super-complicated, giving us a probe of fundamental physics in its most extreme limits. Dr. Wen-Fai Fong tells us all about how we can learn more!

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