Motivated by the recent suggestions that very massive and very light compact
objects exist, in this letter we revisit the possibility of such objects being
strange stars instead of the standard hadronic neutron stars. We study the
possible presence of local anisotropy and how it affects the macroscopic
properties of strange stars and compare our results with the recent constraints
presented in the literature. We found that the presence of anisotropy increases
the maximum mass, the radius of the canonical star, and its tidal deformability
for positive values of λBL​, and the opposite for negative
values. We also show that some observational constraints that are in conflict
with the theory of standard hadronic neutron stars, can easily be taken into
account considering strange stars.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, comments are welcom