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Imagine a star so massive, its core is crumbling under the weight of its own gravity, squashing atoms and protons into dense, unimaginable material. But despite the immense pull of gravity, this collapse doesn’t keep going. Something halts it. In a way that defies everything we know about the unive…

Imagine a star so massive, its core is crumbling under the weight of its own gravity, squashing atoms and protons into dense, unimaginable material. But despite the immense pull of gravity, this collapse doesn’t keep going. Something halts it. In a way that defies everything we know about the universe. The forces at play are so extreme that even the fabric of space itself is stretched to its breaking point. But against this backdrop of cosmic destruction, something remarkable happens. A neutron