NEUTRON STARS CAN SPIN 600 TIMES PER SECOND

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Astronomers Have Found a Strange Neutron Star That "Shouldn't Exist"
Neutron stars are the densest and tiniest stars in the known universe and although they only have a radius of about 10 km (6 mi), they may have a mass of a few times that of the Sun. They can rotate at up to 60 times per second after they are born from a core-collapse supernova star explosion and have been known to spin as fast as 600-712 times per second because of their physics.

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