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The more massive a neutron star is, the greater the constraints it places on the nature of the matter at its core. The discovery of a new mass record holder has strengthened those constraints considerably. See Letter p.1081

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Figure 1: The Shapiro delay.

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  1. M. Coleman Miller is in the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, and the Joint Space Science Institute, College Park, Maryland 20742–2421, USA. miller@astro.umd.edu,

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Miller, M. Weighing in on neutron stars. Nature 467, 1057–1058 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4671057a

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