stellar black hole
Sign in to saveAlso known as stellar mass black hole, SBH
black hole formed by a collapsed star
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Vinony's link graph records 612 inbound references to stellar black hole, and connects out to stellar population, exotic star and binary star.
It is catalogued under topics including Black holes, Compact stars and Stellar black holes.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- compact object
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- topic's main category
- Category:Stellar black holes
- different from
- quasi-star
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- short name
- SBH
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Encyclopedic overview
Artist's impression of a stellar-mass black hole (left) in the spiral galaxy NGC 300; it is associated with a Wolf–Rayet star A stellar black hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They have masses ranging from about 5 to several tens of solar masses. They can be the remnants of supernova explosions, but other formation mechanisms may operate.
Properties
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stellar black hole” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.