The Power Of Neutron Stars

We know how terrifying and powerful black holes can be, but what comes second place in terms to it in terms of overall awesomeness? Join us today as we learn about neutron stars!
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Of course we have a lot of picks for that matter, but the particular thing we would talk about today is the star that ranks number 1 in the universe in terms of density: the neutron stars.
Okay, astro fans, I can hear you argue and say “No, black holes are the densest objects in the universe!” But let me tell you this: remember how black holes work? They are effectively stars that collapsed to an almost zero volume, which results in their enormous gravitational force. If they effectively are dimensionless, can we really say that they are “objects”?
We can’t be really sure, and that’s something that only philosophy can answer, but while we’re here at the subject of definitions and what we actually know for certain, let’s just say the one we can categorize as the densest object, quote-unquote, is the neutron star.
And no, a neutron star is not a subatomic particle which grew to the size of the star. It isn’t also a bunch of neutrons agreeing to somehow collectively come together to form a humongous star. Although we can effectively say that a neutron star is like a giant atom, we'll get to that later.
For now, I want to discuss how neutron stars are born and why they are like Phoenixes: how from the ashes of their old corpses, they rise up and fly with their new, replenished lives!
I know you already know this if you’re an astro buff, but to some of our viewers out there who are new, first of all, welcome! We hope we spark your curiosity more through our videos!
Anyway, stars were discovered to follow some kind of lifecycle, just like us living beings on Earth. They too, get born, have a childhood phase, then grow to adulthood, then also die, after certain circumstances.
A star’s usual routine involves fusing hydrogen into helium. Quite honestly, in its lifetime, that’s all it ever does. Now, as we know from basic nuclear physics, when we fuse atoms together, it creates energy. The energy that the fusion in the star creates is countered by the gravitational force towards its center, effectively keeping the balance and preventing it from collapsing towards its center. As long as this goes on, everything is good and well at a star’s life.
But of course, like all lives, stars experience a tipping point in theirs.
Remember how stars burn hydrogen to fuse to helium? Well, eventually, stars run out of hydrogen to fuse, so they fuse helium instead, forming elements such as carbon and oxygen. The energy pushes out the borders of the star causing it to move to its giant phase, until the pressure from electron degeneracy collapses the core of the star, and expelling its outer layer leaving a white dwarf.
For heavy mass stars, a number of times larger than the mass of our own Sun, the story is different.
The same as earlier, when the star runs out of hydrogen to fuse, it begins to fuse heavier elements. The difference this time is that the collapse caused by gravity is so extremely strong, way stronger than what we described earlier, that the fusion goes to Neon, to Oxygen, to Silicon, then finally to Iron.
As this happens, the outer layer of the star begins to fatten up faster as time goes by.
When the core of the star is finally iron, fusion can no longer take place, as iron is stubborn this way. We can imagine at this point, there is no more energy resulting from fusion. So what if that happens? The own weight of the star collapses in itself, effectively crushing it to the size of up to around a 10 kilometer radius. It’s like compressing the star to about the size of Malta!
Now, we know how subatomic particles don’t want to get near each other, right? We can practically say that an atom is made of empty space. However, the strength of the gravitational force that occurs when a heavy mass star collapses crushes this space in between, merging the protons and electrons together to form neutrons, with some neutrinos in excess.
But the extravaganza of energy doesn’t end there! See, neutrons hate being compressed towards one another, too. Just like protons and electrons. The collapse can only occur up to a certain moment where the neutrons form a lattice-like structure, the crushing in stops. By the way, this sudden halt is what we call neutron degeneracy pressure.
Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Densest Object In the Universe
05:34 Next Most Extreme Object In The Universe
07:04 What Things Are We Bound To Find Inside?
09:53 The Change In Angular Speed
#insanecuriosity #neutronstars #astronomy

[@sea_space]

Nice title.

[@mntndrw2493]

Reminds me of a different video about the same topic 🤔

[@iwanttodemonetizedmyself7464]

i wonder where he got that idea🤔

[@juanstepbehind]

SEA is such a better channel anyways. I was wondering why this video was recommended to me but it's only because the dude can't come up with his own video, let alone a different title!!

[@paulkepshire5056]

Your poor videographer clearly didn't get the memo on which kind of stock footage to use for "Skater"...

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

Lmfao

[@horizonbrave1533]

Way to be a dick

[@richardgracews6]

We thought flat earthers we're the densest items in the whole universe, but today we learned differently. ROFLMAO Thanks

[@kurtwood1653]

Best comment ever!

[@jamegumb7298]

God is testing you and you are failing.

[@starwolf3834]

I think we all loved that poke at flat earthers.

[@Djr67]

@@jamegumb7298 God is like your brain, non existent

[@kosefix]

Well, I strongly disagree. Flat earthers ARE denser.

[@Jesus8998]

"Let's watch a skater do a spin...." Not a single spin....

[@Tamburello_1994]

I saw skateboards ?!

[@hawks9nkh]

That’s because these videos are pumped out of China. The narrator doesn’t see the video. The editor doesn’t know what was meant by a spinning (figure) skater. That’s the example being made. This video is trash.

[@samueltheodore1003]

Lmao I come here looking to see if anyone else was as confused as me. I think they get the wrong “skater” mixed up haha

[@paultucker2729]

Oh come on now you guys used skateboarders instead of iceskaters for your anglar momentum analogy bad choice guys had choice

[@SeniorCharry]

yeah that was a fail.

[@NyanaCore]

I noticed that too. Skate boarders have next to nothing to do with angular momentum; figure skaters are the classic example for describing this concept.

[@RmNrIHRoZSBDQ1AK]

A writer makes a script from wikipedia and similar summaries of science papers. A narrator reads it. A video editor puts some stock footage together. Q̶u̶a̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶t̶r̶o̶l̶ ̶s̶c̶r̶e̶e̶n̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶ ̶R̶e̶v̶i̶s̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶m̶a̶d̶e̶.̶ The secretary uploads.

[@glennnile7918]

Yeah. I know what you mean. They are not as good as people sitting on their ases finding fault with someone else, actually doing something.

[@CuriousGoose]

Also it was a guy not a girl.

[@victorunbea8451]

I guess quark stars will need to wait to be discovered

[@Bassotronics]

What happens to this “quark matter” if a neutron star blows up? Will the matter still be just as strange since the gravitational force is gone? Will this matter be dangerous if it reaches Earth?

[@lamar6297]

It’s predicted that it is the most ideal state of matter so that anything it touches wants to get into that ideal state so it transforms that matter into the denser strange matter and it may actually be the hypothetical dark matter that holds galaxies together even through the inflation of the universe likely due to its density and if it actually the lost dark matter and our math holds up it’s gravity may be able to keep entire supercluster together

[@SeniorCharry]

Info on Neutron Stars is always welcome.

[@georgi.x1257]

Just found out this channel,well explained :) will reccomend to my other Bulgarian friends,subscribed ! Thanks

[@STohme]

Very interesting content and very nice video. Many thanks.

[@Reth_Hard]

How can we decide if black holes are objects or not when we are not even sure what is inside them?

[@crimsondaemon906]

A black hole is not the name of a star itself after it has collapsed, but a description of the space, or lack thereof surrounding where the star should be. In this sense, the black hole does not fit in the same category as a neutron star. It is worth mentioning, however, that we are still uncertain of whether the star in a naturally formed black hole remains, or disappears for some reason as we have no way of receiving information from beyond its event horizon. So, there is no way to know for certain, if if can be classified as the densest “objects”.

[@phizicks]

7:01 hard core.. I see what you did there.. hard, core. neutron star.. I get it

[@sandeepmukherjee990]

Yes black holes can be categorized as an object as it's the singularity inside a black hole which is dimension less but black hole do have dimensions also accretion disk is also part of black hole which has dimensions

[@kms5656]

a dozen magnetars in the entire universe??? we already know of over 20.......very poor information here

[@Joseph-wh5of]

Wonderful video.

[@ericr154]

I'm insanely curious how this channel has subscribers. My favorite part was the botched skater footage

[@JustInCase_007]

I wanted to give you a thumbs up but I got distracted by all ads being shoved down my throat

[@InsaneCuriosity]

Hi Justin, how many ads did you see? You should see max 4 ads

[@kevinfranklin4014]

Since a black hole takes up space, I would consider it an OBJECT!

[@theapocilip]

Uhh What? Only a dozen magnetars in the observable universe? Lol

[@munyua9313]

Yea right

[@1234tiberiu]

Neutron stars are in second place after black holes. Black hole is not a object, they're made by a star collapsed under gravity, which is reaping the fabric of space and time. Wonder how deep the collapse star gone down, probably in a other universe?

[@lucidfiredragon77]

Omg, thank you. I want to see someone grab a hole without grabbing the matter that makes it!

[@1234tiberiu]

@@lucidfiredragon77 you won't be able to do that, when you get near the black hole, you'll be pulled and teared,like the Italian spaghetti

[@spartanladkenny7870]

Skater clip was supposed to be an ice skater not a skateboarder! Lol

[@verifiedgentlemanbug]

Lmfaoo rofl oh no, im dyin laughing rn 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@user-uu7sk8bz5l]

I really would like to find about the stuff that make up a Black Hole

[@mortkebab2849]

Also, a range of heavy elements found on Earth are produced only or mostly by neutron star mergers rather than supernovae: astronomynow.com/2019/10/29/heavy-element-creation-confirmed-in-neutron-star-merger/

[@bradrunyan9534]

Voice over guy tries a little too hard... Script writer should stick to their day job...

[@glennnile7918]

A collision of two Neutron stars can create enough gold to make 150, solid Gold earths.

[@shine9680]

Yes a black hole is an object. It exists therefore it is.

[@balajatin]

Yup, Anything with mass, should be considered an object.

[@sidgar1]

A black hole is more of an null-object. It can never be seen or touched. Its gravity has collapsed it into a singularity, basically squeezing it off from the rest of the universe. So it's not really a part of our reality anymore, while that which we consider "objects" are. It's like a negative object which absorbs other objects and removes them from our reality. The only tangible thing is the gravity it produced. The mass itself is removed from any interaction with our reality.

[@lucidfiredragon77]

But, it's a hole. A hole is a lack of matter in a place!!

[@aliceincode]

A blackhole would be an object, obviously spherical, which would explain why it always looks like we are looking into the eye from the top!

[@lucidfiredragon77]

If it has mass, you can call it an object.

[@bruceatkinson5010]

Wrong skaters used , also the reference to pasta was pretty lame; pretty certain the entire universe more likely to have more than a dozen magnetars,

[@valarmorgulis3920]

We British drink coffee too 😂 nice video! The universe is crazy!!

[@glennnile7918]

I would love to see someone come up with a mathematical model about what is in these fascinating objects.

[@43nostromo]

Even more fascinating is the Schwarzschild radius of Uranus which is about 5 inches. That would cause a black hole inside Uranus that is pretty tight.

[@robblerouser5657]

So, you couldn't find any stock footage of a FIGURE skater?

[@Isawwhatyoudid]

Kip Thorne said the matter that was crushed or imploded on the way to the formation of a black hole is gone. So if our definition of an object is something composed of matter then no a black hole is not an object.

[@bopeep7080]

"We thought the most dense items in the universe were Flat Earthers", thank you for my laughter.

[@ky1ebetts]

With all that pressure making an unbreakable substance, I wonder if nuclear pasta super-diamonds exist?

[@emiliomencia7429]

Excellent video, and yes, neutron stars are the most dense objects in universe. A real space/time monster

[@StarFleet_Tech1701]

Neutron decitometer scan, positron emission topography

[@clevername4781]

Exactly!

[@colinclement2752]

I was gonna say the same thing

[@donscicchigno896]

A black hole isn't an object, it's just a perverse chunk of spacetime.

[@AUTOTUB3]

Stars are beautiful like a red rose🌹. Yet so scary as a death 😥😔🥺.

[@eduardocovaci1175]

Mater can not just disappear or be destroyed therefore black holes are still stars but condensed. In my opinion it is still an object like a neutron star

[@Timmy12321]

Yes

[@damanybrown5036]

Could you discuss the geometry; topology of a neutron 🌟's surface next time? I overstand that it is not smooth nor spherical...

[@rayzorrayzor9000]

Nuclear Pasta followed by Black Hole Pudding . . . Food for a God !

[@ijoj1000]

good

[@tazloki4631]

Give magnetors a tryout

[@AJKlos]

Think they were supposed to show an ice skater for reference...not a skater (as in Skate boarder)

[@delron.phoenix]

What's with people watching a video about Pulsars and then complaining about skaters🤔

[@MrFlex5]

I'm so hungry right now, I could go for a plate of nuclear pasta. ⚛🍝

[@ImSpun13]

0:05 --> “... but what comes second place in terms to it in terms of...” What the fuck happened there?!? 🤔

[@spyalggyaltsen9207]

too many ads man.

[@gachaross7776]

That Star Took my Credit 😤🤬

[@vijayalakshmi11243]

Black hole is an object or simply like a densier star ,as of it is densier , and the volume in it is nearly to zero the particles cannot move inside and thus produces no light ,wkt light is a wave by the movement of photons ,so light cannot happen in black holes .

[@kbryancourville]

A black hole isn't actually a hole. This is why it can and does grow to the point of super massive black holes.

[@vishvaleads9337]

I am new 😌 thanks for explaining detailly 🤗.

[@6B6Z6]

I say a black hole is an object, because it has a density and it has a spherical shape and other properties so I don't see why they wouldn't be...

[@jayanderson1971]

Gravity is not an object. It’s not tangible in the same aspect.

[@drfate4405]

Maybe black hole is neutron star that is so dence we cant even see it anymore

[@panc8ke324]

Hey, Just a fyi....You used the wrong type of skaters for the example of angular momentum. You were talking about ice skaters but showing skate boarders.

[@theapocilip]

Lmao

[@paultucker2729]

Dude you are just repeating what I have already said use an original thought please

[@panc8ke324]

@@paultucker2729 Dude, just accuse me of not reading the comments before commenting, instead of thinking that you can only have original thoughts, cheers...

[@paultucker2729]

Fair enough my bad

[@Isawwhatyoudid]

Did a bot or some type of program get your stock footage for you? The skater pictured is not the kind of skater you described. I knew what you were talking about because I am what you called an astrobuff and am familiar with the analogy for angular momentum but if their are indeed newcomers like what you mentioned at the beginning of the video then they are probably lost if they are the type that needs a visual as well as a verbal explanation.

[@jonnycat6a517]

A thing that exists in reality is a object and or matter..... I don’t get your question..... of course it is a object! The most dense object in the universe since the singularity at the moment of the Big Bang!

[@dezheathen]

The way you pronounce Pasta....

[@MikeThaiger]

That was weird... Why explaining ice-skating while showing skateboarding???

[@Fail-Safe-1]

What happens if a black hole collided with a neutron star.....

[@kenzibell5943]

I couldn’t watch because the background music was so loud I couldn’t hear what the guy was saying!!

[@edward_dingle_perry445]

coffee and tea aren't the same thing.

[@lucidfiredragon77]

Smacking my head, think about it. What is a hole?

[@liquidhaste]

Strange stars potentially beg to defer

[@ZeroSpawn]

13:16 Flat earthers bURNNNN!!!

[@juzoli]

Black holes are not necessarily more dense then neutron stars. If you fill up the volume of the solar system (up to the outer planets) with atmospheric air, then you have enough mass in the volume to create a black hole. You have a black hole with very low density. So I’m often more amazed by neutron stars. It is always dense, and things are actually happening in it, instead of being frozen in time. Also being in orbit around one is much more bad for our health, than being in orbit around a black hole.

[@sidgar1]

It is possible for a black hole to be less massive than a neutron star but by definition, a black hole is a point of infinite density, because it collapsed into a singularity (point of zero size). Therefore, even if the neutron star was more massive, it occupies a finite, measurable volume of space, and density is just mass over volume. Any amount of mass over zero volume is mathematically infinite density.

[@juzoli]

sidgar1 No, that is NOT the definition of black hole. The definition is this: “a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape.” It is a REGION with nonzero size. The singularity is only the consequence of the mathematical formula. The singularity doesn’t exist in real life. That’s one of the main goal of “theory of everything”, to describe what is happening in the center of the black hole.

[@juzoli]

stupidsexyflanderss Exactly, that is one of the main reasons why we are looking for the “theory of everything”, which could unify quantum physics and relativity.

[@sidgar1]

@@juzoli The mass that collapsed into a black hole is theorized to be a singularity of zero size and infinite density. The event horizon it exerts has a radius but the original matter no longer does. Density is derived from mass divided by the volume of the mass. The mass of the black hole doesn't occupy the entire volume of the event horizon, it occupies a volume of zero size aka a Singularity. Look up the theory of black holes. Also, there isn't a "flaw" in the mathematics, it's a consequence of not being able to divide by zero. (Finite mass over zero volume) . It has absolutely nothing to do with it "not accounting for quantum mechanics". It's amazing how people on KZbin think they know better than astrophysicists 😂

[@juzoli]

sidgar1 It is explicitly said by all physicists, that the SINGULARITY IS NOT REAL!!! Period. THAT’s what astrophysicists say, not what you said. So you should be amazed by your own ignorance. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity Also, the GRAVITY is infinite, not the density of matter. Since time stops in the black hole, there isn’t even anything which would fall into the center in finite time.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Sorry, 5 commercials in less than 15 minutes is a tad too commercial for me. Sorry, I quit.

[@ollyrl1529]

Actually neutron stars are the second most densest. Magnetars are the most densest

[@1FATBOY114]

Yes a black hole is an object

[@tazloki4631]

No there's a step further than neutron stars

[@northernirishman1140]

It's an object alright but it's not stuff.... A black hole I mean...

[@shawnpeacock1037]

you cant get more of an object that a black hole...its the king of objects

[@lucidfiredragon77]

I'm so done.

[@Daniel8x8]

What colour have a Neutron Star?? white, blue?

[@dylan4972]

I need my pistons and rods to be made from the core of a star but not a neutron star.

[@lucidfiredragon77]

Hole = a hollow place in a solid body or surface. It is a noun. Not an object.

[@raypitts1168]

Why would a black hole not be just a large neutron star.

[@MaIContent]

I don't think black holes can be considered "objects" as only the accretion disk can be observed. an impenetrable wall that hides... only God knows what, currently. when I die I wish to visit Sag-A star and frame-drag. and hang ten atop a magnetic wave. view my warped visage in a still time-pool. I cant wait.

[@justinmartin8139]

Isn’t a magnetar more dense then a neutron Star?

[@clevername8832]

A magnetar is a fast spinning neutron star.

[@To1988ny]

I like my tea i am British

[@vume7722]

Black holes are object in space,

[@shine9680]

Could a black hole be made of the same pasta as the core of a Neutron star?

[@sidgar1]

Black holes aren't made of anything. Their matter has been crushed into zero size and annihilated from existence. All that's left is the hole in the universe it created.

[@garethpendlebury7996]

Enjoyed that. Keep 'em coming!

[@lucidfiredragon77]

Since people want to embarrass others for stating facts!

[@gluekswurst8444]

McDonalds science.

[@lucidfiredragon77]

It's like talking to Trump's wife here! Totally agreed!

[@TheGozz13]

Ahh, YES a black hole is an object..!

[@juzoli]

Goran G Well, it is not zero in size for sure. The zero size singularity only exist in theory, and that’s regarded as the limit of our theories.

[@lucidfiredragon77]

A hole is the lack of matter in a place. Lol!

[@TheGozz13]

@@lucidfiredragon77 : Yes but the name does not reflect the nature of the object, just describes it's visual interpretation..! LOL LOL

[@sidgar1]

@@TheGozz13 But the name accurately describes it. A black hole is literally a hole in the universe that removes anything that falls into it. If it's an object, then a shadow is also an object. It's more of the lack of an object, a bottomless hole where nothing can exist. It's a "thing" in the sense that it's a concept we can describe, but not an "object" in the sense that it's no longer a physical thing, it's just a gravity well with no bottom. In a normal hole, the things that fall in will remain at the bottom, but whatever falls into a black hole becomes zero size. It's kind of hard to be an object when the matter no longer exists in a physical sense. What this really demonstrates is our language's limitations and the failure of people trying to apply everyday words to a phenomenon that breaks down the very laws of nature and is utterly beyond our ability to truly understand.

[@TheGozz13]

@@sidgar1 : LMAO.....! NO, it is an object that is denser than a neutron star with a much stronger gravitational pull that even light can not escape, it is NOT a hole, things do NOT just fall into it, they are dragged in by it's gravity and smashed into it's surface and because once past it's event horizon it can NOT escape so we see it as a black circle, it is in fact a black sphere. Just like the super massive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy and there is one at the centre of all Galaxies...! DO your homework, don't rely on fantasy...!

[@lucidfiredragon77]

If people can't even correct themselves, how are you commenting against an astrophysicists incorrection. People make mistakes, dummies justify them!

[@jtaustinmusic]

You're shameless plugging "oh like us! Watch commercials!" Ruins it all. How do I block you?

[@caseyg6225]

Wrong skater

[@sihfthethief208]

had to thumbs down, interesting, but had an ad, always thumbs down for forced ads

[@lucidfiredragon77]

This is pissing me off dude!

[@JDL16]

Triggered much? How many times are you going to comment on this vid?

[@lucidfiredragon77]

It was a bad week for me. Lol, I have other things toconcern myself with. But, thanks for that. It deterred me from triggering me physically. Stay safe!!😉

[@lucidfiredragon77]

As many times as "I" wish. That's what opinions are.

[@JDL16]

Ha! This is hilarious.

[@mikeminarich3896]

a few errors in this video

[@mikle9011]

mike minarich elaborate please.

[@mikle9011]

I was watching a video from youtuber thought2 about some exo planets and he was super fucking wrong. So i know a lot of these KZbinrs have misinformation.

[@chaoticstorm8145]

@@mikle9011 9:37 I've watched countless astronomy videos and every single one relates star spinning to an ice skater spinning, not a skate boarder spinning. I mean a skate boarder doesnt even spin so if you were new to this topic you would never be able to get the image

[@unbrokenbeatrecs]

Skater...she... Clearly a guy. Clearly a skateboarder. Wtf.

[@qake2021]

😁

[@lucidfiredragon77]

A black hole is not an object, it is more an event or an occurance

[@lucidfiredragon77]

Thank you.

[@MiniLemmy]

You showed the wrong type of skaters dude! I think you meant to show ice skaters pirouetting, and when they bring their arms in, they spin faster! The skateboarders you showed was completely the wrong analogy!!! Fascinating subject ruined by amateurism....

[@lucidfiredragon77]

It's a hole people. You can't even tell what it's made of because it's a hole. A lack of matter in space-time. Made by matter gone mad, a hole is still a hole!

[@cadeepakgupta957]

Poor commentary with too many frivolous talk. Not to mention no efforts for videography.