2006-07-09 16:43:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Not quite sure what you're asking. Even at the surface of a neutron star gravity is immensely strong, so the entire star is degenerate matter.
2006-07-09 16:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it started out as a star, so it has a certain amount of matter already. After supernovae, it sheds some of the matter, but still has some, this is condensed down to hunders if not thousands of what it used to be, the atoms are packed so tightly that there is no space between the atoms, there is just a solid matter, even steel has air between the atoms, which allows it to be cut, the matter from the nuetron star would be hundreds of tons per square millimeter, but, it still takes up a sizable diameter, although it started out as a star with a diameter of thousands of miles, all that is compacted to maybe a diameter of 500 feet.
2006-07-09 17:14:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neutron stars consist of degenerate matter. Protons and electrons are fuse together to create neutron, that's why it's called neutron star. They are about 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter. More massive stars become black hole after they explode in supernova. Smaller stars end up become white dwarf.
2006-07-09 17:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by Radixa M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋