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Do black holes have a maximum electric charge?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Maximum Charge of a Black Hole

Technically, there's no maximum charge to a black hole. There's a maximum ratio. If you make it more massive, then yeah, you can have more charge. But you can't have more energy in the charge effectively than in the mass. Things that would put this black hole in physics jail can't actually fall into the black hole.

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