[Zuse]

Lots of wild claims represented as facts. Settled science or more mathemagic?
Let’s see them put their hypothesis to a falsifiable test.

[dsc]

I thought the existence of black holes was in doubt.

[blueunicorn6]

“It created ripples in the fabric of space-time”

Well, get out the old space-time iron and iron it down.

Maybe a little starch would help.

[lump in the melting pot]

What is the mass limit of crappy countries before they become shitholes?

[VanDeKoik]

CNN: Physics fat shames Neutron Stars into massive weight loss until they become a racist term.

[SuperLuminal]

This whole article is blatant white-privilege racism using the excuse of “...light not being able to be observed...” as a reason to call a hole in space-time a “black” hole.

[Drew68]

Most neutron stars are between one and two solar masses.

In a sphere about 12 miles across. These are some of the most fascinating objects in the universe.

I wonder, if you could ever get close enough to even see one, before this happens:

A Neutron Star Is Not Your Friend

[minnesota_bound]

You can make Dyson spheres out of neutron matter or a Doomsday machine.

[ShadowAce]

Perhaps someone with more physics knowledge than me can answer the following question, based on my physics knowledge:

1. Gravity is based on the amount of mass in a body, not the size of the body
2. A star has a certain amount of gravity, but by no means is it black-hole strong
3. A dying star, after burning most of its mass over billions of years, explodes and can become a black hole

Given the above, where does the extra mass come from when a star explodes, expelling a lot of mass away from it? There must be more mass because black holes have more gravity.

[Hot Tabasco]

Wow, what a coincidence! Me and my buddies were discussing the mass limit for neutron stars just this past Friday night in the bar after bowling.......

[Gideon7]

This is called the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit, named after the three physicists who first calculated it in the 1930s. They came up with a value between 1.5 and 3 solar masses.

In 2007 a pular with 2.01 solar masses was found, which set a new lower limit. Then some researchers in 2017 set a new upper limit of 2.17, which I think is what the article might be talking about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff_limit

This figure is for the residual mass. About 90% of the original mass gets blown into space.