A sugar-cube of this star would outweigh a mountain

When a massive star collapses, gravity can crush its core until electrons and protons merge into neutrons, packing roughly a sun's worth of mass into a sphere about the size of a city. A single teaspoon of that material would weigh billions of tons — matter this dense exists nowhere else in the observable universe outside black holes.

— Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky, On Super-Novae — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1934

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