extremal black hole Comparison Table

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extremal black hole comparison table

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black hole massive compact halo object A gravitationally collapsed mass inside the Schwarzschild radius (q.v.), from which no light, matter, or signal of any kind can escape. A black hole occurs when the escape velocity of a body becomes the velocity of light (2GM / R = c²). If an object with the mass of the Sun had a radius of 2.5 km, it would be a black hole. Black holes represent one of the possible endpoints of stellar evolution for stars very much more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit.

extremal black hole black hole Black hole endowed with the maximal amount of force charge possible for a given total mass.

Subject	is a kind of	has definition
black hole	massive compact halo object	A gravitationally collapsed mass inside the Schwarzschild radius (q.v.), from which no light, matter, or signal of any kind can escape. A black hole occurs when the escape velocity of a body becomes the velocity of light (2GM / R = c²). If an object with the mass of the Sun had a radius of 2.5 km, it would be a black hole. Black holes represent one of the possible endpoints of stellar evolution for stars very much more massive than the Chandrasekhar limit.
extremal black hole	black hole	Black hole endowed with the maximal amount of force charge possible for a given total mass.

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