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"Any amount of mass at all can in principle be made to form a black hole if you compress it to a high enough density."
What is the high enough density?
What is the high enough density?
A black hole is a region of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, including light, can escape from it.
The minimum density required for an object to become a black hole is known as the Schwarzchild density, which is approximately 9 x 10^17 kg/m^3.
Yes, any object can become a black hole if it reaches the required density. However, for smaller objects, the required density is much higher due to their smaller mass.
The density of a black hole is extremely high, with some estimates putting it at billions of times denser than the sun. This makes it one of the densest objects in the universe.
There is no known limit to how dense a black hole can be. As more matter falls into a black hole, its density will continue to increase. However, there is a theoretical limit known as the Planck density, which is the highest possible density in the universe.