Black holes are regions of space from which nothing can escape. If you consider a spherical object of mass M and radius R and set the escape velocity from the object to be , the speed of light, you can determine a relationship between R and M, , where is Newton's gravitational constant. This radius is called the Schwarzschild radius, denoted by . If mass M is concentrated into a region with a radius smaller than then you have a black hole, and if not, there is no black hole.
From the above relation you can determine the minimum mass of a black hole, as roughly speaking the Schwarzschild radius must be larger or equal to the Compton wavelength - the minimum size of the region in which an object at rest can be localized.
Find the minimum mass of a black hole in .
Finally, a bonus thing to think about. What does this result mean for the masses of the particles that we see in nature?
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