Quark Stars

When a giant star dies, it can collapse into a black hole or implode into an ultra-dense
neutron star. But there are even stranger possibilities. Here are some theorized stars
that make black holes look downright boring.

Before we get to all the weird stars, we should probably review the stars we already
know about. Ordinary stars are just gigantic bodies of luminous plasma, most made up
of hydrogen but also containing varying amounts of other elements. The mass of stars
can vary quite a bit, from tiny red dwarfs to blue super-giants to average-sized yellow
spheres like our Sun, but the internal makeup is all more or less the same.