• count_of_monte_carlo@lemmy.worldM
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    3 days ago

    A black hole is believed to contain a singularity with all of the mass as a single point. So this is well past the point of baryonic matter and in a region where our physics models break down.

    If you just take the total mass of a black hole and divide it by the volume of the Schwarzschild radius (aka event horizon) you get a density MUCH greater than a neutron star. This isn’t a useful measure of the black hole density though, since all of the mass is at a single point of presumably infinite density.

    • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Ah, many thanks, it’s been quite a while since UP2 and I honestly didn’t even have a good grasp on it while I was taking the class