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Am I reading wrong, or is no remnant in the middle of a black hole formation region?

It looks like “direct black hole” is on both sides of “no remnants”.



I guess on both sides they start out as star -> collapse, but one either side the collapse continues into a hole. Within those parameters the star will stop collapsing and go supernova and never collapse back. I guess that's what it means.


Yes, this most likely just means that different processes are responsible for the same outcome (i.e. becoming a blackhole), depending on the mass of the star.

Edit: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova#250...




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