> Is it even possible for a black hole (or any stellar body) to form without angular momentum? In principle, yes. In fact, one of the earliest papers on black

> Is it even possible for a black hole (or any stellar body) to form without angular momentum? In principle, yes. In fact, one of the earliest papers on black holes was the one by Oppenheimer and Snyder in 1939 that derived an explicit solution for the case of perfectly spherically symmetrical (i.e., exactly zero angular momentum) collapse to a black hole. In practice, any blob of matter is most likely going to have some angular momentum, and it's unlikely that it will shed all of it if it collapses to a black hole, so we would expect black holes without any angular momentum at all to be rare. But there could be significant numbers of them that have small angular momentum compared to their mass.