Nuclear Pasta: The Strongest Material In The Universe #universe #spacefacts #astrophysics
The hardest material in the universe is not found on Earth.
It's called nuclear pasta, and it's found in the crust of neutron stars.
Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that have exploded in supernova.
They're incredibly dense, with the mass of the sun squeezed into a sphere about the size of a city.
Nuclear pasta gets its name from its unusual structure.
It's made-up of layers of different nuclear materials, arranged in a way that resembles pasta.
The different layers are held together by the strong nuclear force, which is the force that binds protons and neutrons together in the nucleus of an atom.
Nuclear pasta is incredibly strong.
It's estimated to be 10 billion times harder than steel.
This is because the strong nuclear force is so much stronger than the forces that hold atoms together in other materials.
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