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There's indeed a problem with existence of black holes. Why would they exist? They are usually postulated into existence.
by GoblinSlayer 1mo ago
There's indeed a problem with existence of black holes. Why would they exist? They are usually postulated into existence.
- ben_w 1mo agoThey're an automatic outcome of fairly benign starting conditions in GR: Simply having more than a certain amount of mass within a certain volume. The required density for that stuff goes down as the volume goes up, so a solar-system sized object (~77 AU radius) at mere normal sea-level (Earth) air density (1.2 kg/m^3) would just be one automatically. Given that the maths of GR requires spacetime to not have a singularity*, and yet it predicts a singularity from benign starting conditions, I take this as a sign that GR is not correct. But black holes are nonetheless an outcome, not a presumption. * it's more complicated than that