Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel

A teaspoon of this stuff would weigh 100 million tons, and the only thing more dense is a black hole. Space is weird.

Scientists at the University of Indiana have shown the incredibly density and molecular strength of neutron stars, which as all you amateur astronomers know is the leftover from a gravitational collapse of a star during a supernova. The research was started out of concern that the intense gravitational pull of these things could cause ripples in space-time, but could lead to new understanding of star quakes or magnetar giant flares.

So the next time you’re about to push your glasses up your nose and toss an esoteric insult at your lab partner, consider “as dense as a neutron star.” [Eureka via Crunchgear]