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Why Are Neutron Stars So Incredibly Dense?
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- Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars after a supernova explosion, packing more than the Sun's mass into a city-sized sphere.
- A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh about 10 million tons on Earth, equivalent to a mountain compressed to that size.
- Their immense density creates gravitational forces so strong that they warp spacetime, causing light to bend around them.
- Neutron stars rotate extremely fast, some hundreds of times per second, emitting beams of radiation that appear as pulsars from Earth.
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