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Do black holes have singularities? – THE PHYSICS DETECTIVE

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I think Roy Kerr’s recent paper is important. It’s called Do black holes have singularities? I think it’s important because it challenges an orthodoxy that’s been taken for granted, and because Kerr has the authority to get some attention. That’s…

Post author: The Physics Detective Post published: 30th December 2023 Post category: Black holes / Trouble with physics Post comments: 84 Comments I think Roy Kerr ’s recent paper is important. It’s called Do black holes have singularities? I think it’s important because it challenges an orthodoxy that’s been taken for granted, and because Kerr has the authority to get some attention. That’s because he was in on the Golden Age of General Relativity , and because the EHT collaboration described both M87* and Sagittarius A* as matching the Kerr metric. To set the scene, black hole physics has be

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