The radius of the event horizon of a black hole can be approximated by its Schwarzschild radius which is given by the formula r=2GM/(c^2) where G is Newton's gravitational constant, M is the object's mass, and c is the speed of light. Standard units for mass and speed are kilograms and meters per second respectively, yielding a radius in meters. For a 7 solar mass black hole the Scwarzschild radius would be about 20.67 kilometers. So the event horizon would be about 40.34 kilometers across.
The event horizon of a 100-solar-mass black hole is about 295 kilometers in radius. It represents the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of the black hole.
There is no theoretical limit to the MASS of a black hole. The largest known black holes have a mass in excess of a billion solar masses... so far. In the distant future, you can expect them to continue growing.The DIAMETER or the RADIUS of a black hole is directly proportional to the black hole's mass; the radius would be about 3.0 kilometers for every solar mass. The diameter, of course, is twice as much. Thus, a black hole of 10 billion solar masses would have a radius of 30 billion kilometers... about 200 AU.
The black hole with a mass of 3 solar masses has the largest radius among the objects listed. This is because the radius of a black hole is determined by its mass and the Schwarzschild radius formula, which dictates that the radius of a black hole increases with its mass.
The formula for the Schwarzchild radius of a black hole is given by Rs = (M/Mo) x 3km. Here Mo means the mass of the Sun. For Earth, M/Mo = 0.000 003, that is, Earth has 0.000 003 x Mo. Thus Earth's Schwarzchild radius is about 1 cm. That means that if a giant squeezed Earth into a diameter less than 2cm, it would be a black hole.
If it had a radius, then it wouldn't be a singularity. The event-horizon surrounding a black hole has a radius, which depends on the black hole's mass. But the singularity itself has no radius.
The Schwarzchild radius of a 2 solar mass black hole would be about 5.9 km.
The event horizon of a 100-solar-mass black hole is about 295 kilometers in radius. It represents the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of the black hole.
The event horizon of a black hole is a spherical area round the center of the black hole; it has a radius proportional to the mass of the black hole - a radius of about 2.95 kilometers for every solar mass.
There is no theoretical limit to the MASS of a black hole. The largest known black holes have a mass in excess of a billion solar masses... so far. In the distant future, you can expect them to continue growing.The DIAMETER or the RADIUS of a black hole is directly proportional to the black hole's mass; the radius would be about 3.0 kilometers for every solar mass. The diameter, of course, is twice as much. Thus, a black hole of 10 billion solar masses would have a radius of 30 billion kilometers... about 200 AU.
The black hole with a mass of 3 solar masses has the largest radius among the objects listed. This is because the radius of a black hole is determined by its mass and the Schwarzschild radius formula, which dictates that the radius of a black hole increases with its mass.
The formula for the Schwarzchild radius of a black hole is given by Rs = (M/Mo) x 3km. Here Mo means the mass of the Sun. For Earth, M/Mo = 0.000 003, that is, Earth has 0.000 003 x Mo. Thus Earth's Schwarzchild radius is about 1 cm. That means that if a giant squeezed Earth into a diameter less than 2cm, it would be a black hole.
If it had a radius, then it wouldn't be a singularity. The event-horizon surrounding a black hole has a radius, which depends on the black hole's mass. But the singularity itself has no radius.
The Schwarzchild radius of a black hole is linearly dependent on its mass. The relationship is rs = 2GM / c2 where G is the Newtonian gravitational constant, m is the mass of the black hole, and c is the speed of light. The Schwarzchild radius works out to be 2.95 km per solar mass. There is nothing at all mysterious about this formula. It comes from the standard classical formula for escape velocity ve = sqrt(2Gm / r) by substituting c for the velocity and then solving for r.
The Schwarzschild radius is directly proportional to the mass of the black hole. It is about 2.95 km for every solar mass.
The black hole property that determines the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole is that it has mass but no angular momentum nor electric charge.
The event horizon of a black hole is directly related to its mass. For a 100 solar mass black hole, the event horizon radius would be about 295 kilometers (183 miles). This is the point of no return beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape the black hole's gravitational pull.
It is called the Schwarzschild radius