Neutron stars spin a thousand times a second

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]There's an object out there spinning a thousand times every second. A neutron star is the collapsed heart of a giant star that already exploded billions of tons of matter crushed into a sphere the size of Manhattan with gravity so strong that a teaspoon of its surface would weigh as much as a mountain. When the parent star collapsed, conservation of angular momentum spun the remnant up to insane speeds the way an ice skater pulling their arms in turns a slow rotation into a blur. And somewhere in deep space, faster than any clock you will ever own, spinning silently in the dark