The Black Hole Tipping Point
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Black holes are very heavy astronomical objects (which gives them all sorts of cool behaviorsand properties), but to make a black hole it takes more than just a lot of mass.It takes a lot of density, that is, a lot of mass crammed into a sufficiently smallspace.Precisely how much mass, or how small it needs to be crammed, will vary.Black hole formation is complicated, but there are essentially two possible paths: startwith a fixed amount of matter and compress it smaller and smaller until it reaches thetipping point where it’s dense enough to become a black hole (this is how supernovasturn the core of supergiant stars into black holes), or keep adding matter to an existingobject until it reaches the tipping point where it’s so big it becomes a black hole(for example...
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Black holes are very heavy astronomical objects (which gives them all sorts of cool behaviorsand properties), but to make a black hole it takes more than just a lot of mass.It takes a lot of density, that is, a lot of mass crammed into a sufficiently smallspace.Precisely how much mass, or how small it needs to be crammed, will vary.Black hole formation is complicated, but there are essentially two possible paths: startwith a fixed amount of matter and compress it smaller and smaller until it reaches thetipping point where it’s dense enough to become a black hole (this is how supernovasturn the core of supergiant stars into black holes), or keep adding matter to an existingobject until it reaches the tipping point where it’s so big it becomes a black hole(for example...
