Monday, 9 November 2020

Is there some special cutoff density after which spacetime "collapses" and forms a black hole?


With crude calculations following densities can be approximated:


Given that radius of proton is 1.75×1015m and it's mass is 1.67×1027kg, this gives density of proton to be 1.67×1027kg43(1.75×1015m)3=341.67×10275.36×1045kgm3=2.34×1015kgm3


Density of the heaviest naturally occurring solid U238: 1 cubic meter of Uranium is about 2×104kg, and since there are 238 protons+neutrons in Uranium, this gives the density 8×103×104kgm3=8×10kgm3


This means the protons are dispersed by a factor of 2.92×1013, in other words there are 2.92×1013 empty space units to each unit of space filled with proton.


Density of water =120×10kgm3=5×101kgm3


The density in the core of neutron star is 8×1017kg/m3, and the density of a black hole is supposedly infinite according to Wikipedia, but then again before transitioning to a black hole there must have been some finite mass distributed over a non zero volume of space therefore having a finite density.


So far on logarithmic scale (base 10) followings look obvious for log10(densitykgm3)=log10kgm3+log10density


Let d=log10density,log10kgm3=what is one to make of this?



Then following crude observations can be made:


1O(d)1: Order of density of life as we know it.


O(d)15: Order of density of matter packed space


O(d)17:Order of density at the core of a Neutron star


O(d)x:Order of density of black holes, (collapse of space to contain matter?) what is x?


My question is: does these calculations make sense and is there anything more to the order of densities than these naïve observations?



Answer



I think you're asking if there is some special cutoff density after which spacetime "collapses" and forms a black hole. If this is your question then the answer is no, there is no specific cutoff.


Density unites are massvolume but the size of black holes is dependent on the mass and the size is not proportional to the volume but to the radius. That is, the Schwarzchild radius rs of a black hole of mass m is rs=Gmc2


What this means is that as a black hole becomes more massive, the critical density dc needed to form a black hole is dc=3m4πr3s



That is, as the black hole mass increases the density needed to make it form is reduced. In principle you can make the density arbitrary small which means there is no fundamentally critical density.


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