Biftheunderstudy
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That is correct, Security Theatre.
I didn't elaborate very much, but that is included in the outward pressure in the form of degenerate matter. For a white dwarf, that is electron degenerate matter. After the Chandrasekhar limit, neutron degeneracy and a speculative quark degeneracy after that.
If there is still more mass, there is nothing else left to prevent the collapse.
That said, we still can't simulate the formation of a black hole from the supernova and observations are too incomplete to know where the true minimum mass for a black hole to form is.
I didn't elaborate very much, but that is included in the outward pressure in the form of degenerate matter. For a white dwarf, that is electron degenerate matter. After the Chandrasekhar limit, neutron degeneracy and a speculative quark degeneracy after that.
If there is still more mass, there is nothing else left to prevent the collapse.
That said, we still can't simulate the formation of a black hole from the supernova and observations are too incomplete to know where the true minimum mass for a black hole to form is.