A spoonful of a neutron star weighs about a billion ton

A spoonful of a neutron star weighs about a billion ton

Neutron stars spin incredibly quickly and are also incredibly dense. It is estimated, if you could collect a tablespoon of matter from the centre of a neutron star, it would weigh about one billion tons.


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