A star turns into a black hole through a process called gravitational collapse, which occ… — @holvek

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@holvek's TikTok video "A star turns into a black hole through a process called gravitational collapse, which occurs at the very end of its life cycle. Throughout its active life, a star maintains stability because the outward pressure from nuclear fusion in its core balances the inward pull of its own gravity. Once the nuclear fuel is completely exhausted, this internal pressure drops to zero, allowing gravity to instantly trigger a catastrophic collapse toward the center. This dramatic fate is reserved exclusively for massive stars with an initial mass at least 20 times greater than our Sun. While smaller stars end their lives as white dwarfs or neutron stars, dying stars with a remaining core mass exceeding the Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit (about 2.17 solar masses) cannot resist gravity. At this stage, no known physical force in the universe is strong enough to halt the crushing collapse of the core. As the collapse reaches its climax, the star's outer layers are either blown away in a violent supernova explosion or swallowed entirely. The remaining core is crushed into a point of infinite density known as a gravitational singularity. Surrounding this point, a boundary called the event horizon is formed—an invisible cosmic threshold from which nothing, not even light, can escape due to the extreme gravitational pull. #blackhole #astrophysics #spacetok #Science" has 65,356 views, 6,458 likes, 96 comments, 424 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 10.68% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted over two weeks ago and runs 13 seconds. It has been saved 1,675 times.

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It was posted on 2026-10-11, over two weeks ago.

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