Rank the degenerate pressures from least supportive to most supportive:

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Degenerate pressures arise when particles are squeezed together so tightly that their quantum mechanical properties prevent them from occupying the same quantum state. The pressure created by this effect helps support matter against gravitational collapse. The most degenerate particles have the strongest degenerate pressures. Electrons are less massive than neutrons, so their degeneracy pressure is weaker. Meanwhile, black holes do not have any degenerate pressure because they have already collapsed to a point of infinite density. Therefore, option D, in which electrons have the weakest pressure and neutrons have a stronger pressure, is the correct answer.

Rank the Degenerate Pressures from Least Supportive to Most Supportive