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massive 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.

massive black hole black hole Utilized in a theoretical model for quasars and active galactic nuclei, according to which the energy source is due to infall (and resultant heating) of gas and stars onto a supermassive central black hole.

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.
massive black hole	black hole	Utilized in a theoretical model for quasars and active galactic nuclei, according to which the energy source is due to infall (and resultant heating) of gas and stars onto a supermassive central black hole.

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