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To: vincenteblackshadow
A black hole with a mass equal to that of the Sun would have a radius of 3 kilometers. So a typical 10-solar-mass black hole would have a radius of 30 kilometers..

The volume of a sphere with a 3km radius is 113.1 km3; the volume of a sphere with a 30km radius is 113,097 km3. That would make it more like 1,000 times the volume.

10 x volume (1131 km3) would be a radius of 6.46 km.

5 posted on 02/18/2006 7:51:36 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Mike Darancette

The volume is irrelevant -- what is important is the force due to the mass in the black hole and the escape velocity. After a bit of algebra, you obtain the Schwarzschild radius, where R = 2 * G * Mass * c^-2. Therefore, a 10-solar-mass black hole has a radius 10 times greater than a 1-solar-mass black hole.


6 posted on 02/18/2006 9:31:57 PM PST by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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