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Stellar black hole
black hole formed by a collapsed star / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A stellar black hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a type of black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star.[1]
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For one to be made, a star five to several tens the mass of our Sun must explode into a supernova.[2]
The process is seen as a hypernova explosion,[3] or as a gamma ray burst.[3] These black holes are also called collapsars.