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brooksmoses ([personal profile] brooksmoses) wrote in [personal profile] xiphias 2008-11-03 07:22 am (UTC)

No, you've got that backwards. His Schwartzchild radius is teeny-tiny, much smaller than he is, and since he's not all within that radius, he's not a black hole.

However, there is an amount of mass which, if packed into a sphere with the same density he has, would be a black hole. It has a radius about the distance of Mars from the sun, IIRC from the article. Which, if you packed it with stuff at that density, is still a startling lot of mass.

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