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Formation of Black Holes
Black holes form from the remnants of massive stars (typically 20+ solar masses) that exhaust their nuclear fuel. When such a star can no longer sustain fusion, its core collapses under gravity in a supernova explosion. If the core’s mass exceeds ~3 solar masses, gravity overwhelms all opposing forces (like neutron degeneracy pressure), compressing it into a singularity—an infinitely dense point. This creates an event horizon, a boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, escapes.
Key Steps:
Stellar Death: A massive star burns fuel, balancing gravity with radiation pressure.
Core Collapse: Fuel depletion halts fusion; the core implodes in milliseconds.
Supernova: Outer layers explode, while the core collapses further.
Singularity: If the core’s mass crosses the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit, it becomes a black hole.
Other Pathways:
Mergers: Collisions of neutron stars or other black holes (observed via gravitational waves).
Primordial Black Holes: Hypothesized tiny black holes from the early universe’s density fluctuations.
Black holes grow by absorbing matter and merging. Their extreme gravity warps spacetime, making them invisible except via their effects (e.g., accretion disks, gravitational lensing).