Types of Black Holes

Stellar-Mass Black Holes: created upon collapse of a collapsing star’s neutron star that has been left behind after the supernova at the end of the star’s lifespan. Their size is usually in the range of sun-sized and larger stars.

Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

The origin of black holes that have approximately 50-120 times the mass of the sun (or in that size scale) is being ruminated about and still unknown. They could possibly be the products that underly formation in Black Hole Mergers

Supermassive Black Hole: dense black holes of dissimilarly gigantic mass in comparison to other types of black holes. As of recently, these black holes form the center-point of every observed galaxy.

  • The mass of a galaxy Mass of its supermassive central black hole