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> What makes you think their proposal isn't more likely than a black hole? Because a boson star is purely theoretical and I have a much stronger observational

• bookofjoe 3y ago
  Once upon a time black holes were purely theoretical. See, for example: >The Country Parson Who Conceived of Black Holes [in 1783] https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/john-michell-black-holes#:~:text=A%20black%20hole%20is%20a,Michell%2C%20an%20English%20country%20parson https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm.... >A Brief History of Black Holes https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/john-michell-black-holes#:~:text=A%20black%20hole%20is%20a,Michell%2C%20an%20English%20country%20parson https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosm.... >At a conference in New York in 1967, Dr. Wheeler, seizing on a suggestion shouted from the audience, hit on the name “black hole” to dramatize this dire possibility for a star and for physics. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html#:~:text=At%20a%20conference%20in%20New,a%20star%20and%20for%20physics https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/science/14wheeler.html#:~....
  • The_Colonel 3y ago
    Survivorship bias. Aether was once also a theory which "just" needed an experimental evidence.