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A single teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh approximately six billion tons on Earth.

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Neutron stars are the ultra-dense remnants of collapsed massive stars, where matter is compressed to the point that a small amount has a mass equivalent to a mountain.

Source: Astrophysics Journal

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