A Q-star, also known as a grey hole, is a hypothetical type of a compact, heavy neutron star with an exotic state of matter. Such a star can be smaller than the progenitor star's Schwarzschild radius and have a gravitational pull so strong that some light, but not all light, cannot escape. The Q stands for a conserved particle number. A Q-Star may be mistaken for a stellar black hole. Types of Q-stars SUSY Q-ball B-ball, stable Q-balls with a large baryon number B. They may exist in neutron stars that have absorbed Q-ball(s). See also Black hole Stellar black hole Compact star Exotic star Boson star Electroweak star Preon star Strange star Quark star References Further reading Degenerate stars Compact stars Hypothetical stars