A thimbleful of neutron star material weighs 100 million tons
A mere thimbleful of neutron star material weighs 100 million tons, revealing the mind-bending density of these stellar remnants and their profound implications for physics.
Imagine a thimbleful of material weighing 100 million tons, roughly the mass of a large mountain range. This incredible density comes from neutron stars, born when massive stars explode. Their cores collapse under immense gravity, squeezing matter so tightly that protons and electrons merge into neutrons.
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