One teaspoon. A billion tonnes. No container could hold it.
One teaspoon of neutron star material weighs roughly a billion tonnes. Not a billion grams — a billion tonnes. On Earth, that speck would punch straight through the planet's crust before anything could slow it down.
So what produces something that dense? When a massive star exhausts its fuel, it collapses in a supernova — a catastrophic implosion that packs more mass than our entire Sun into a sphere about 20 kilometres wide. That is city-sized. The surface gravity runs billions of times stronger than what pins you to the ground right now.
Some of these objects spin hundreds of times every second, sweeping beams of radiation across the cosmos like a lighthouse gone haywire. We call those pulsars.
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