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Also known as strange star

hypothetical type of exotic star

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white dwarf
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Encyclopedic overview

A quark star is a hypothetical type of compact, exotic star, where extremely high core temperature and pressure have forced nuclear particles to form quark matter, a continuous state of matter consisting of free quarks.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “quark star” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.