{"response":"{\"What is the maximum mass of a neutron star?

The maximum mass of a neutron star is like the heaviest backpack a kid can carry before it breaks their shoulders.

Imagine you have a neutron star, it's like a super-dense ball made up of neutrons, which are tiny particles inside atoms. Think of it as a giant, packed-up lunch bag filled with nothing but really tight sandwiches.

Now, if you keep adding more and more stuff to that backpack (or neutron star), at some point the gravity, the force that pulls things together, becomes too much for the neutrons to handle. It's like when your backpack gets so heavy it feels like it might tear your shoulders apart!

Scientists have found that a neutron star can be as heavy as about 2.5 times our Sun before it collapses into something even more extreme, like a black hole.

So the maximum mass of a neutron star is kind of like the heaviest backpack a kid could carry without breaking their shoulders, and that weight is about 2.5 suns!