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Oh I read the parent comment as black holes having a soft upper boundary. Is that the case? Or if more stuff falls in they just get bigger (minus Hawking radiation)?



So there is a complication, which is space is filled with vast amounts of nothingness. For a black hole to get bigger objects need to be on a collision course with it, which is somewhat unusual. A black hole doesn't behave any differently from the same mass as something not a black hole. So once a star turns into a black hole, the accretion disk is usually remnants/maybe more if it is in a nebula. Once that's gone, that's it for growth.




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