Neutron Stars Explained: The Densest Objects in the Observable Universe
When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel and explodes as a supernova, it sometimes leaves behind something stranger than a black hole – a neutron star. Not strange because it is invisible or because nothing escapes it. Strange because it exists at all: a stellar remnant roughly the size of a city, containing more mass than the Sun, spinning hundreds of times per second, and radiating energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Neutron stars represent physics at extremes that cannot be reproduced in any laboratory on Earth. Their interiors contain matter compressed beyond atomic density, squeezed so hard that protons and electrons merge into neutrons. Their surfaces generate magnetic Read more
