Some friends and I were joking at work that we have so much to do that our heads were going to implode. This reminded me of black holes and neutron stars. Following a brief explanation of what neutron stars are, I poked around google for an informative site and found this one. This, in a nutshell, is a neutron star:

”Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of some massive stars. They pack roughly the mass of our Sun into a region the size of a city.”

Wrapping my brain around the concept of a black hole is a little too complicated, but neutron stars are more digestible. To compare, a black hole could store something with the mass of the Sun in a single point in space and time. Neutron stars, on the other hand, require something like the size of Chicago to store that same mass. I can handle that.

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