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But the story doesn’t end there. A neutron star is a cosmic wonder of compression. Take a teaspoon of this matter, and it would weigh a billion tons on Earth. Imagine an object the size of a city that weighs more than the sun. The pressure at its surface is so extreme that nothing can survive near …

But the story doesn’t end there. A neutron star is a cosmic wonder of compression. Take a teaspoon of this matter, and it would weigh a billion tons on Earth. Imagine an object the size of a city that weighs more than the sun. The pressure at its surface is so extreme that nothing can survive near it. The forces of gravity and pressure push the star to an unimaginable limit. Yet, despite this, the neutron star doesn’t collapse further—until a crucial point. If enough mass is added, even quantum