Re:Astronomers discover Milky Way's biggest stellar black ho...
by kubanczyk on Thursday April 18, 2024 @06:47PM
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A vast cloud of what gas and what dust? I thought we had started with only hydrogen and I thought that collapsing the hydrogen creates stars first. How could it even cut directly to the stage of black hole?
So the current working hypothesis for massive black holes in galaxies is that they formed directly from the gravitational collapse of "vast clouds of gas and dust" with such high gravitational pressure that the core couldn't keep up, and the entire mass of gas and dust collapsed into a massive black hole. There is no supernova involvement; merely a direct transition into a black hole.
Of course, take my laic simplification into account.