| Abstract |
Neutron stars, only about 12 km in radius but up to twice as heavy as our Sun, consist of the densest observable matter in the Universe. These extreme compact objects are stabilized by the same strong interactions at work in atomic nuclei. Recently, great advances have been made in understanding strong interactions in nuclei and neutron stars. This progress has been enabled by combining effective field theories of the strong interaction and powerful many-body approaches with multidisciplinary insights from experiment and observations. This colloquium will discuss these advances and the open challenges in exploring strong interactions in the Universe.
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