Scientists Found a Star That Shouldn’t Exist #cosmos

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Scientists found [music] a star that shouldn't exist. A dead star is burning inside its core. When stars die, they collapse into [music] neutron stars, so dense a teaspoon weighs a billion tons.

[00:00:11]In a binary system, one star dies [music] and that should end it. But in rare cases, the neutron star doesn't destroy its host. It spirals [music] inward, punches through the surface, and settles inside the core. The red giant keeps [music] living, powered by a dead star burning in its center. They're called Thorne-Żytkow objects. They forge elements no normal star can create, proof that something [music] dead is living inside. A leading candidate was discovered in 2014 in a neighboring galaxy. But there's a problem. A Thorne-Żytkow [music] object looks almost exactly like a normal red giant. The dead star [music] inside is completely invisible. There is no way to count how many exist. There could be [music] stars in our own galaxy right now burning with a dead star in their cores, and we would never know. Follow for [music] more.