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Damn now my curiosity is piqued.
So let’s theoretically gather together an almighty ball of iron.
As you add more, would it’s own gravity cause the density to increase to a point where it would collapse into a black hole?
Would chocolate eclairs achieve fission? I need to submit these to Randall Munroe.
There is a way to find that out. We can use Schwarzschild radius to find the point at which an objects radius crosses the event horizon and thus becomes a black hole; R~s~=2GM/c^2^, R~s~ being the Schwarzschild radius, G being the gravitational constant (6.67xe^-11^), M being the things mass, and c being the speed of light.
I believe so!
I assume chocolate is made of lighter elements than iron so yeah, a big chocolate ball enough would become a star!
Yum 🤤
I don't know how long it stays edible 😅
And eventually you'd be crushed by the growing gravitational pull of this chocolate ball!