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I have wondered that, though without knowing enough to even figure out if it is a reasonable question. One follow-on thought I had was this: what about the matt
by mannykannot 5y ago
I have wondered that, though without knowing enough to even figure out if it is a reasonable question. One follow-on thought I had was this: what about the matter that becomes the black hole when it forms? When a star collapses into a black hole, where does the event horizon first appear?
- lupire 5y agoWhat do you mean "where"? It appears at the region one Schwarzchild radius away from the center.
- mannykannot 5y agoSure, but the Schwarzchild radius is a function of the mass within it. I'm thinking by analogy to a galaxy or globular cluster, which has enough mass to be a black hole, if it were dense enough, but it will not become one unless and until some dissipative process has caused it to collapse towards its center. When this happens, I am supposing that the black hole will first form in the center (where the gravity well is deepest), with a large part of the cluster mass initially outside of it, and grow as the friction continues to feed mass into it. If this is, in fact, a reasonable model, would something similar happen in a collapsing star? (Only much faster.)