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π€ dear xkcd, how many tacos are needed to form a singularity?
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit is around 2-3 solar masses, which means if you had that amount of cold matter and collapsed it, it would form a black hole. Problem is that once you start compressing it, it gets hotter and starts forming all sort of repulsing forces. Then again, it is generally accepted that stars bigger than 20 solar masses collapse into a black hole at the end of their life cycle. We will go with 20 solar masses so we don't have to fiddle with cold tacos.
Quick Googling said that tacos weight on average 100 to 230 grams. We will go average of average approach so 170 grams.
Plugging the numbers in:
20 Solar masses / 170 grams = 2.339x10^32^ tacos
233,900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tacos for anyone that can't read scientific notation
So like at least 2
I don't think anyone can read that number either.
I can read it in my head I just don't know how to say it out loud
234 trillion quadrillion.
Two hundred thousand million billion quintillion.
One-quarter of a billion billion billion billion.
It's a shame that yotta- is the positive prefix, because I thought I could excuse describing a yoctotaco.
233.9 nonillion
Math checks out, definitely at least 2