Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained
Neutron Stars are some of the strangest things in the Universe. Not quite massive enough to become black holes they
are basically atoms as big as mountains with properties so extreme it’s mind-blowing. And if you get too close to a neutron star you are in big trouble…
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Atoms As Big As Mountains – Neutron Stars Explained
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@prithwishguha309
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
2:18 No your Calculations Are Wrong it's not that massive Neutron Star's Density is 10¹⁷Kg/m³ So for 1000cm³ (Around Thor's Mjolnir) it's 10¹⁴Kg And Mount Everest is 8.1 x 10¹⁴ Kg Or Around 1 billion ton As you Said. So it's Equal to 8 Mjolnirs(Or Around 10). My Guess you most probably put 0.1 m And mistook it for 1 cm instead of 10 cm
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
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@nadinecastro2015
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
I found a hidden time machine inside the crust
@horse_chestnut2359
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
I study neutron stars in my PhD and this type of video never fails to get me re-excited about my field. 🙂
@phoebeli6257
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
3:58 hmm sound like a long time ago
@phoebeli6257
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Extremely dense and violent hmm maybe orks
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
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@chillsahoy2640
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
The name for neutron stars makes them sound neutral and peaceful. They are anything but!
@hayliebowler
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
OGRES ARE LIKE STARS!: they have layers
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
What if there was a Neutron Star instead of a Supermassive Black Hole in a galaxy somewhere in the universe?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
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@HilaryPea
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
"Atoms as big as mountains." That concept is hard to imagine, just by reading it. it is like imagining, that as big as an ostrich egg it is, it contains only ONE cell. When I was ten years old, I learned that and it seemed to almost break my brain because every education source had led me to believe that all types of cells were microscopic. Ach!
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Maybe about how the universe started and how subatomic particles are formed to create an atom and about infinite mass
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
2:52 no one noticed that car
@busultan12
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Can any one explain to me how is the star becomes heavier?! Because matter doesnt created from nothing insidenthe star . Its just the same atom re arrange them selfs to a change from one element to different element .
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
I got an ad who knew what I was watching…
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
I think it would be fun for an advanced civilization to just toss random things at a neutron star, waiting for it to turn black. Whoever's turn it was, loses.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
The music is too loud and too distracting.
@Jeremy.Bearemy
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
So shouldnt the title be "atoms as HEAVY as mountains"? There arent atoms as big as mountains
@MikeFico998
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Do a video: how do neutron stars differ from black holes?
@earthone777
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Garbage.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Why the surface is so hot? From where the energy come?
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Almost a decent video
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
iron can fuse into other elements but it is endothermic
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October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
É muito legal ver um vídeo desse de oito anos atrás e comparar com um mais recente. A animação e o áudio deram um salto astronômico e a ciência continua precisa. Muito bom acompanhar esse canal ❤
@Wardiver_man
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
"unbelievably dense and violent" i think i know someone like that
@Chanselor_Gowron
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 pm
just read three body problem. "atoms as big as mountains" have a whole, more terrifying, meaning now.
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