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How small can black holes get?

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A star that stops producing radiation, with a mass about 2-3 times the mass of our Sun (mass remaining after a possible supernova explosion), or more, can become a black hole.

There is also some speculation about miniature black holes ("primordial black holes"), with much less mass than that, which might have formed during the Big Bang, because of the enormous density that existed at that time. However, so far there is no evidence that such black holes actually exist.

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