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A teaspoon of neutron star would weigh about a billion tonnes

An entire sun's worth of matter, crushed into something the size of a city.

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When a massive star collapses, protons and electrons are forced together into neutrons, producing matter at nuclear density. A neutron star packs more than the Sun’s mass into a sphere roughly 20 kilometres across. The surface gravity is around a hundred billion times Earth’s.

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