Can an object grow past the schwarzschild radius?
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Imagine the following: A massive star, VERY close to reaching the schwarzschild radius and become a black hole. It bends light quite a lot, but light coming out of it in a perpendicular angle is still able to escape.
Then this star absorbs a large planet, which contributes just enough mass to reach the schwarzschild radius and become a black hole, no light can escape anymore.
Why is it that scientists believe at that moment all the matter collapses into an infinitesimal point in space? Couldn’t the star keep existing and growing just as it was before, with the exception that light is “sucked” back in? An energy/mass sinkhole?
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