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A Neutron Star Teaspoon Weighs 10 Million Tonnes

Neutron stars pack more mass than the Sun into a sphere barely 20 km across. A single teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh roughly 10 million tonnes on Earth — about the mass of all humans alive today.

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