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When a stellar remnant is over about 3 to 4 times the mass of the sun (see Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit) it is estimated to have insufficient outward pressure to resist gravitational collapse into a black hole. Note that larger stars would often explode into a supernova or become a planetary nebula, losing most of their mass this way first - perhaps over 75 percent - and thus the original star's mass needed to have a remnant heavy enough to collapse in a black hole would be much heavier than 3 times solar mass.

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