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A teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about a billion tons on Earth.

Why it is true

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars. Gravity crushes the matter so hard that atoms lose their empty spaces, creating an unimaginable density.

Source: NASA

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