Neutron Stars Research Paper

Neutron Stars are born from the deaths of stars. When a star dies, if it is not massive enough to become a black hole, it becomes a neutron star. A neutron star has a mass between one to 3 suns compressed into the size of central park. A sugar cube sized slice of a neutron star will weigh around 10 billion tons(around the mass of Mt. Everest). The reason it can do this is because hydrogen atoms(the simplest and lightest material) are around 99.9999999999996% empty space. The atoms in this star are compressed to the point where very little space is between the nucleus and the electron. Speaking of particles, these stars create light in a unique way through something called synchrotron emission. This is where the star rotates so fast that