believe it or not this star spins faster than your kitchen blender imagine a star so dense so compact that it's no bigger than a city but weighs more than the sun this is a neutron star the leftover core of a massive star that has exploded in a supernova neutron stars are the fastest spinning objects in the universe some of them called pulsars rotate hundreds of times per second but just how fast is that they of the fastest kitchen blender you've ever used it spends around 30,000 times per minute now imagine something far more extreme one of the fastest neutron stars ever discovered PSR j1748 2446 ad spin it 716 times per second that's over 43,000 revolutions per minute faster than your kitchen blender on its highest setting