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From: Stan	8/5/2025 10:09:47 PM
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I've always wondered what would happen if a spoonful of a neutron star that weighs in the hundreds of millions to a few billion tons (can't seem to find agreement about this number) was placed on the surface of the earth. Since it weighs a lot more than Everest, it should start to fall through the earth. Then what? Back and forth it would go like the needle in a sewing machine I imagined till it settled in the center of the core. But according to this astronomy article something entirely different would occur! Answer is in the last two paragraphs if you want to jump right to it. What would happen if a tablespoonful of a neutron star was brought to Earth?

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