What if you ate a neutron star?
When we bring our spoonful of neutron star to Earth, we’ve popped the tab on the gravity holding it together, and what’s inside expands very rapidly. A spoonful of neutron star suddenly appearing on Earth’s surface would cause a giant explosion, and it would probably vaporize a good chunk of our planet with it.
What would happen if you dropped a teaspoon of neutron star?
The reason that the density is so high is because the pressures are so immense. If we somehow teleported a teaspoonful of neutron star material to earth, it would very rapidly inflate because the pressures aren’t high enough to crush it into its dense form. This would effectively be an enormous explosion.
How many neutron stars are in a teaspoon?
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star “A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×1012 kg, about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.”
How heavy would a teaspoon of neutron star?
4 billion tons
A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh 4 billion tons!
What would a pulsar look like?
From Earth, pulsars often look like flickering stars. On and off, on and off, they seem to blink with a regular rhythm. But the light from pulsars does not actually flicker or pulse, and these objects are not actually stars. Although the light from the beam is steady, pulsars appear to flicker because they also spin.
How heavy is a teaspoon of black hole?
And the other thing is that one teaspoon of matter from a black hole would weigh 1000s of tons on earth, probably because it was compressed in that strong gravitational field.
How do black holes form?
Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.) When the surface reaches the event horizon, time stands still, and the star can collapse no more – it is a frozen collapsing object.