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I’d never heard that there’s an upper limit to the size of a black hole. What is supposed to happen when it approaches this limit?
by dfee 4y ago
I’d never heard that there’s an upper limit to the size of a black hole. What is supposed to happen when it approaches this limit?
- Thiez 4y agoAs far as I am aware there is no theoretical limit that they cannot surpass, but of course they are limited in practice by the available mass, and how fast they can consume that mass; a lot of mass ends up orbiting, instead of falling into the black hole. So black holes such as the one mentioned in the article are expected to be rare.
- sebzim4500 4y agoOnce they reach a certain size the stars in the closest stable orbit are no longer ripped apart by tidal forces, which means that they do not grow significantly beyond this.