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superpaul3000
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Most people on this forum know the basic theory of black hole formation. When a massive star runs out of fuel there is no longer enough heat pressure pushing out against the gravity pulling in and the star collapses. The density of the core and resulting remnant become so large that nothing, not even light, can escape. This forms an event horizon and something we call a black hole.
However, I have not found much more information than that. I was curious as to the details of what is going on at the core of the collapse in the formation of the black hole. I tried to understand this process with the known laws of physics. This of course means one must consider QM in the picture.
So QM predicts that there is some non-zero vacuum energy randomly producing virtual particles that are continuously created and then annihilate with each other. It is also possible that microscopic black holes form from these quantum fluctuations but since they are so small they evaporate through hawking radiation very quickly. These mini black holes are forming all around us all the time and presumably also forming at the cores of collapsing stars. So my understanding would be that given a critical density of matter, one which could be realized during this collapse, the mini black hole gets close enough to particles of matter to suck them into it. The bigger it gets the slower it evaporates and the faster it grows. The final result is a supernova with a black hole remnant at its center.
Is this an existing theory of black hole formation? Are there other theories that describe the details of black hole formation?
However, I have not found much more information than that. I was curious as to the details of what is going on at the core of the collapse in the formation of the black hole. I tried to understand this process with the known laws of physics. This of course means one must consider QM in the picture.
So QM predicts that there is some non-zero vacuum energy randomly producing virtual particles that are continuously created and then annihilate with each other. It is also possible that microscopic black holes form from these quantum fluctuations but since they are so small they evaporate through hawking radiation very quickly. These mini black holes are forming all around us all the time and presumably also forming at the cores of collapsing stars. So my understanding would be that given a critical density of matter, one which could be realized during this collapse, the mini black hole gets close enough to particles of matter to suck them into it. The bigger it gets the slower it evaporates and the faster it grows. The final result is a supernova with a black hole remnant at its center.
Is this an existing theory of black hole formation? Are there other theories that describe the details of black hole formation?