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Lighter neutron stars: with solar masses below 2-3 solar masses are thought to form Black holes because
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Pulsars are neutron stars that radiate energy at regular periods See. F.1.1

Quasars suggest the existence of black holes since the accelerated matter that black holes draw in could
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Since black holes are really massive the ‘stretched rubber sheet’ of space-time becomes very deformed.

The Schwarzhild equation tells that:

meaning that there’s a critical radius when a mass becomes a black hole.

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- gravitational constant,
- mass,
- speed of light.

For Earth this radius is 1cm.

The event horizon is the boundary at which light can not escape from the black hole. Singularity is a spot
in the middle of the event horizon to which the mass shrinks, since no known force can stop the
contraction. Here all time, space, matter and energy end.

Wormholes should allow to disregard the curvature of space-time and let us travel through space
instantaneously.

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General relativity states space-time curves because of
mass, yadda yadda.
A singularity has such high mass that it can curve
space time in on itself creating wormhole.
Or it can cause a tear in the continuum, into which
everything in the event horizon is eventually pulled,
out of the universe itself.

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