https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1603.02698/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20994304urn:hackerpapers:mention:1603.02698:20994304Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:45:23 GMT<p>Who do you think ruled Britain until 410AD and give the English their mile, which is simply the word for &quot;1000&quot; in Latin? And I think that the press release is in error here. There was no radius measurement proposed in the Nature Astronomy paper. However, the radius in the press release is far to large. See: https://i.imgur.com/Y34OspJ.png (From https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.02698.pdf) Something on the order of 6-10 miles for a 2.14 M neutron star is much more appropriate. Notice that this measurement may rule out some of our models (mostly the gray lines on the left of the chart) that don&#x27;t…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1603.02698/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.HE