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Loading contentThe quantum pressure — arising from the Pauli exclusion principle acting on densely packed neutrons — that holds a neutron star up against its own gravity. It is far stronger than the electron degeneracy pressure that supports a white dwarf, but it too has a limit: above roughly two to three solar masses, no known pressure can prevent collapse into a black hole.
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