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no, there isn't some set mass that will make a black hole. A black hole is gravity overcoming the other fundamental forces. When a star dies and forms a black h
by hxegon 10y ago
no, there isn't some set mass that will make a black hole. A black hole is gravity overcoming the other fundamental forces. When a star dies and forms a black hole the force pushing outward from the fusion is overcome by the gravity of the star, but there isn't some threshold of size where this happens.
- saagarjha 10y agoWhile true, this answer is a bit misleading. There is a minimum threshold for stellar black holes–the ones created through stellar evolution–it's called the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit.
- pdonis 10y ago> There is a minimum threshold for stellar black holes–the ones created through stellar evolution–it's called the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit. That limit gives the maximum size of a neutron star, but it does not say an object smaller than that cannot form a black hole. In fact, it is considered likely that supernova explosions could cause an implosion that could form a black hole smaller than the limit, simply because it happens too fast for neutron degeneracy pressure to stop it before the implosion reaches the Schwarzschild radius.