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About how much would a teaspoon of neutron-star material weigh on Earth?

Past stat · 2026-09-01 UTC

The answer

Neutron stars pack roughly a Sun's mass into a ~10 km ball. Wikipedia puts a teaspoon at on the order of a billion tonnes: about 15 times humanity at high density, or about the mass of all humans at lower density.

Correct answer: About as much as all of humanity

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