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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

That's exactly what the black holes want you to think.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Basically what they are saying is that there's a possibility of something called a "gravistar" that would be a stable mass held together by dark energy instead of a singular like a black hole. Basically from what I read, it would have even weirder physics but would look exactly the same as a black hole from our outside perspective. My guess is that, in essence, if there's no way for us to tell the difference between a black hole or a gravistar than they could potentially just all be gravistars and we'd never know.

[–] protist@retrofed.com 3 points 3 days ago

The more important issue is trying to reconcile the physics of quantum field theory and general relativity, which today are not compatible. The math behind black holes are a particular bugaboo, and we will have to change something before they can be reconciled