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Don't we pretty much understand stars though? Big ball of gas, hydrogen fusion, etc. Are there any unaccounted energy outflows that would leave room for somethi
by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
Don't we pretty much understand stars though? Big ball of gas, hydrogen fusion, etc. Are there any unaccounted energy outflows that would leave room for something like this?
The main reason we look at black holes so hard is because quantum mechanics can't describe gravity (yet) and general relativity just shrugs and says "I don't do inside event horizons, buddy, but why do you care? You can't even experiment inside one". So it's one of those head-scratchers where the math isn't really helping us figure out _what_ is going on, and the darn things are really hard to observe.
- nullorempty 2y agoA light in the sky could be a star of the kind we understand, but could it be something else? Could we say we understand all stars if we don't understand black-holes? Could the disappearance of light/matter be balancing its appearance?
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoGeneral Relativity works just fine inside the event horizon. The issue with GR is that it's a classical theory, but the fundamental laws of the universe are quantum.