[Joe Brower]

It's worth noting that a stellar mass 1.97 times that of our own sun, Sol, really isn't very big. But at just 2 stellar masses or greater, what is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit is reached, after which even the strong nuclear force cannot resist the pull of gravity, and we have the next (and last) stage in the cycle -- a singularity, or black hole.

It's a strange world we live in. And it's an only too fitting irony that the more deeply we delve into the ultimate nature of reality, the more unreal it becomes.

[Savage Beast]

I'm learning plenty on this thread.

You mean our sun's mass is in the 75th percentile??? And all we need is for something of the same mass to come crashing into it, and we're in a black hole???

[Savage Beast]

I'm learning plenty on this thread.

You mean our sun's mass is in the 75th percentile??? And all we need is for something of the same mass to come crashing into it, and we're in a black hole???