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Black Holes -- basics
•Nothing can stop collapse after neutron pressure fails
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•Escape velocity from a surface at radius R:
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•As R shrinks (but M is fixed), Vescape gets larger and larger
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•At some point VEscape= c  (speed of light)
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–Happens at Schwarzschild radius:
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–Not even light can escape from within this radius
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