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« on: August 17, 2007, 01:59:43 »
I read that a teaspoon of a neutron star weights billions of pounds. 
Can anyone tell me how that is possible?? how does a small space the size of a teaspoon allow for so much matter??? shouldn't the fabric of space tear under the weight of a neutron star??
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2007, 18:16:09 »
It has an enormous mass, but the fabric of space doesn't tear - it bends, creating gravity. It's similar to a black hole. There is so much mass in a tiny little space that it sucks everything into it.

It's hard for us to imagine that much mass because there is nothing on our little planet to compare it to. We wouldn't exist.
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