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A teaspoon of a neutron star is equivalent to…
A teaspoon of a neutron star is equivalent to the weight of roughly 900 Pyramids of Giza. Despite their small size of about 12.5 miles in diameter, neutron stars are incredibly dense, with a mass of about 1.5 times that of the Earth’s sun. According to National Geographic, “a sugar cube of neutron star matter… Read More »
In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student…
In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student showed mathematically that massive stars explode into a supernova and then collapse down into neutron stars,or black holes. Before that Scientists assumed that all stars collapsed into white dwarfs when they died. Chandra’s theory was ridiculed as ‘absurd’. The post In 1930, Chandra, an Indian student… appeared first on… Read More »