The interior of a neutron star is not "solid". You can imagine it's made of a lot of small balls that are the neutrons and some protons [1]. They are small in c

The interior of a neutron star is not "solid". You can imagine it's made of a lot of small balls that are the neutrons and some protons [1]. They are small in comparison, so from a small black hole point of view it's like fog. Black holes don't suck like a vacuum cleaner, it's they only absorb what it colide with them. Imagine the black hole is a very sticky point in a pin, and you move it inside fog. It woulg take a lot of time to collect all the fog. [1] There is a people researching about the internal structure of a neutron star. In spite of the funny names, I swear this is serious research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta https://astrobites.org/2017/10/05/nuclear-pasta-in-neutron-stars/ https://astrobites.org/2017/10/05/nuclear-pasta-in-neutron-s...