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In a Brief history of Time Stephen Hawking refers occasionally to objects of infinite density. Since density is mass per unit volume if an object were so tightly packed that it had no volume it's density is undetermined and not infinite. What does Hawking mean by infinite density?

by /u/adr826 in /r/askscience

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