The theory expects that it requires far more mass than that in a burned out star to collapse into a black hole singularity or neutron star… because there is a point at which there is just as much mass pulling away from the singularity center point as their is pulling toward the center point… but they ignore those calculations in identifying what they claim are black holes in what they are seeing in their telescopic observations. They really don’t know what they are seeing. It’s theory, not really proved fact. Until they can find the 97% of the missing matter called “dark matter” and it’s corollary “dark energy” to make their math work, it’s all nose picking, pulling out buggers, examining them, and making pronouncements on what they’ve “discovered” based on flawed theory.
“The theory expects that it requires far more mass than that in a burned out star to collapse into a black hole singularity or neutron star…”
WRONG! A star 2x the sun can become a neutron star. A star 4x can become a black hole.