Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Neutron Stars and Black Holes

When massive stars reach the end of their life cycle, they can collapse into two extreme objects: neutron stars and black holes. Neutron stars are incredibly dense, with a mass greater than the Sun packed into a small space. Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that noth...

Imagine something as small as Brooklyn, New York, but weighing more than 500,000 times the mass of Earth. That’s a neutron star!

A neutron star is what’s left when a massive star explodes in a supernova, leaving behind an incredibly dense core.

This core is made almost entirely of neutrons, tightly packed together.

Neutron star...