How heavy is a teaspoon of neutron star? 🥄💥

Astrophysicist Erika Hamden explains how this stellar core remnant weighs more than a mountain because it’s packed with neutrons under crushing gravity. It’s the densest matter in the universe before becoming a black hole. On Earth? It would instantly explode.

This project is part of IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.