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The Schwarzschild radius describes the critical value to which the radius of a massive body bust be reduce for it to become a black hole what is the schwarzschilld radius of the sun please explain in steps.

M=2x10^30(true raidus of the sun is 700,000.)r=2gm/c^2 where g= gravitional constant 6.7x10^-11
M= mass of object, c= speed of light 3x10^8 what is the schwarzchild radius of the sun?

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