13 January, 2025

Talman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff Limit

The Talman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit:

There is an upper mass limit to how massive the following objects can grow and remain stable before collapsing into a black hole:

  • white dwarf = 3 x mass of our Sun
  • neutron star = 2 x mass of our Sun
  • Black hole = ...

See www.wikipedia.org