Little White Dense Attractor

When a Super Massive star dies out of a Supernova, there are two outcomes - Neutron Star or Black Hole. If the dying star had a mass of 1.5 to 3 Solar masses, then it forms a Neutron Star. If the core of the star had a mass greater than 3 Solar masses, it forms a Black Hole. Here in this blog, I'm going to talk something about the Neutron Stars.

Neutron Stars are fascinating creations in the cosmos. When the star explodes in a Supernova, the remaining core (1.5 to 3 Solar Masses) begins to contract under its own gravity. The atoms collapse as the electrons crash into the nucleus to form neutrons. This process continues untill all the atoms in the remnant core collapse, and an approximately 10km wide ball of densely packed neutrons is formed, and hence the name.

Neutron Stars are so dense, that a teaspoonful would weigh about a Billion tons. Neutron Stars are observed as Pulsars, so-called because they rotate rapidly and emit two beams of radio waves, which sweep across the sky and are detected as short pulses. Their gravitational pull is not as strong as that of Black Holes, but is pretty much close. Almost nothing can escape their gravitational pull, except Electromagnetic radiations (light in short). On average, gravity on a neutron star is 2 billion times stronger than gravity on Earth. In fact, it's strong enough to significantly bend radiation from the star in a process known as gravitational lensing, allowing astronomers to see some of the back side of the star. If, under some circumstances, two Neutron Stars collide, it causes the most powerful explosion in the known universe, called the Gamma Ray Burst.