We study the collapse of a fuzzy sphere, that is a spherical membrane built
out of D0-branes, in the BFSS model. At weak coupling, as the sphere shrinks,
open strings are produced. If the initial radius is large then open string
production is not important and the sphere behaves classically. At intermediate
initial radius the back-reaction from open string production is important but
the fuzzy sphere retains its identity. At small initial radius the sphere
collapses to form a black hole. The crossover between the later two regimes is
smooth and occurs at the correspondence point of Horowitz and Polchinski.Comment: 27 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures. v2: additional reference