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Article states that solitions are not black holes but only seem like black holes from a distance. Also they are hypothesized from string theory but haven’t ever
by marricks 3y ago
Article states that solitions are not black holes but only seem like black holes from a distance. Also they are hypothesized from string theory but haven’t ever been seen, probably because they’d appear the same as black holes except up close?
Title should be updated to something like: “A theorized defect in space time that appears to be a black hole”
- denton-scratch 3y agoIt's a really thin article. It fails to say how "topological solitons" are different from wave-mechanical solitons, nor does it explain why they look like black holes, or why they lack an event horizon. I'm routinely disappointed with phys.org. It's pop-sci with the "-sci" component reduced to a remnant.
- marricks 3y ago100% agree. It does link to an actual paper which is a step up from blogspam https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.084042 https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.084042