The Black Hole Tipping Point

Опубликовано 30 ноября 2017, 17:20

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This video is about the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole, (its "event horizon"), and how much mass and density is required to reach the point of no return where an object like a star, neutron star, red giant, etc will collapse into a black hole singularity. You can calculate it yourself using just the volume equation for a sphere, and the equation for the Schwarzschild radius (and knowing the speed of light and Newton's gravitational constant).

REFERENCES

Lecture notes on black holes: eagle.phys.utk.edu/guidry/astr...

Mass of cat: google.com/search?q=mass+of+ca...

Schwarzschild radius: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzs...

LIGO Neutron Star Binary Merger: astronomy.com/news/2017/10/lig...

Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff Limit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E...

Neutron Star Equation of State & Density: chimera.roma1.infn.it/OMAR/dot...

Neutron Star Radius: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/...

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