Black Holes -- details
• Remember – gravity is same as before, away from mass
– Black holes do NOT necessarily pull all nearby material in
– A planet orbiting a new black hole would just keep on orbiting
as before (assuming the ejected material or radiated energy
didn’t have an effect)
• Any mass can potentially be made into a black hole – if
you can compress it to a size smaller than RS = 2GM/c2
– 1 MSun: 3.0 km        106 MSun 3106 km          1 MEarth 8.9 mm
• If you do make material fall into a black hole, material
will be falling at close to the speed of light when it
reaches RS
– If that falling gas collides with and heats other gas before it
reaches RS, then light from that hot material (outside RS) can
escape.