Quantum effects might make it impossible to form black holes by immensely concentrating light, because photon collisions create particle-antiparticle pairs that the electromagnetic field accelerates to escape the collapse.

physics.aps.org/articles/v17/1

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@gregeganSF Well shoot, *that's* what I've been doing wrong.

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