PBS Space Time is back, and Matt O’Dowd is here to take us on a trip through one of the most extreme forms of matter in the universe: neutron stars, whose density is so high a teaspoon’s worth of its material can weigh as much as 10 million tons.
Neutron Stars: The Limits of Density
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