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by everyone 2456 days ago
Its actually compressed down to a point. A singularity. The 9mm is just the radius from the point from which nothing can return.
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For all intents and purposes of astronomic calculations, you can pretend it's 9mm in size, because A) the difference between a 9mm sized object that behaves like a black hole and a singularity with a 9mm event horizon is minimal and B) it's a 9mm black hole going 50km/s+, most math will result in the extinction of human kind anyway.
To be fair, we don't know what is behind those 9mm. Einstein's equations predict a singularity but afaik there is consensus that those don't hold there.