Planck mass

The Planck mass is a small unit of mass used in physics. It is derived using an equation involving Planck's constant, the speed of light in a vacuum, and the gravitational constant. It is approximately 21.76 µg.

The Planck mass can be thought of as an upper bound for the mass of a single particle. A particle with more mass would become a black hole.[1] It's also a lower bound for the smallest possible black hole, since a black hole this small wouldn't be able to emit any Hawking Radiation to evaporate any smaller.

As with all Planck units, the idea was to have a definition based only on fundamental universal constants.

Planck Mass Media

References

  1. Faraoni, Valerio. Three new roads to the Planck scale. American Journal of Physics 85 (11) (November 2017). p. 865-869. doi:10.1119/1.4994804.