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Holes -- basics |
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| • | Nothing we know of can stop collapse after
neutron pressure fails |
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| • | Consider escape velocity from the surface at radius R: |
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| • | As R shrinks (but M is fixed), Vescape
gets larger and larger |
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| • | At some point VEscape= c (speed of light) |
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| – | Happens at Schwarzschild radius |
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| – | Not even light can escape from within this radius |
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